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Posted by Barry Watzman on April 8, 2007, 8:58 pm
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About 4 or 5 weeks ago, a lot of people were making posts describing
their problems successfully achieving file sharing in Vista (especially
between Vista and XP computers, in both directions) and asking for help.
I was one of them.
I've found the solutions.
First, go here and read this article:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx
Second, you may still find that sharing still doesn't work unless you
turn off all security (passwords). In many cases, this is caused by a
"feature" that exists in both XP and Vista involving zero-length passwords.
XP Pro, Media Center and Vista will not allow network access to network
computers that have zero-length passwords. You may see the computer,
but will get a "you do not have permission ...." message if you actually
try to access it.
To fix this:
Start / run / gpedit.msc (start the group policy editor)
Open the tree:
Computer configuration / Windows Settings / Security Settings / Local
Policies / Security Options
Find the item:
Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console login only
If this item is enabled, you will not be able to logon to other
computers on the network that have blank (zero-length) passwords. IT IS
ENABLED BY DEFAULT.
Change it to disabled.
This will fix a lot of access problems in "home" networks that don't
have user passwords on many of the machines.
ONE OTHER IMPORTANT POINT: I have found that Vista gets DRAMATICALLY,
friendlier, a LOT friendlier, if you right click on the Vista "start"
button and select "Classic Start Menu". There are some settings there
and in other places that make it friendlier still, but "Classic Start
Menu" is the key. [I'm using the RC version of Vista, I hope and
presume that this option was still present in the production version].
In fact, this option changes a lot more than the start menu, including
the desktop. It makes a whole lot of things look, act and behave more
likel XP (or even 98). But it still leaves Aero and all of the "Wow"
intact.
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Posted by Joseph Fenn on April 8, 2007, 10:34 pm
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No one had any answer available to my question!!
I seem to remember that there is a way via the "run" cmd to
change the screen appearance of windows explorer so its more
like the older versions of windows. I prefer that if its
an option. All the drives, folders, etc in the left panel of
the screen and when you clik on something it shows up on the
right panel of the screen. All that "my crap" turns me off.
Joe
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Posted by Lars on April 10, 2007, 8:30 am
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>change the screen appearance of windows explorer so its more
>like the older versions of windows. I prefer that if its
>an option. All the drives, folders, etc in the left panel of
>the screen and when you clik on something it shows up on the
>right panel of the screen. All that "my crap" turns me off.
Right-click on the desktop, choose "new" from the drop down
menu, then "shortcut". Then you paste the following line in there;
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e, /select, C:\
Gives you a shortcut for the computer savvy. Your mother-in-law
might not like it though.
Lars
Stockholm
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Posted by Joseph Fenn on April 10, 2007, 3:40 pm
Please log in for more thread options Thanks again Lars. I had tried the "traditional" setting but it did'nt
work like I wanted. Will try that other stuff
%SystemRoot%/wzploewe.wzw /n. /e. /select. C: backalsh.
I guess that must be dont via the RUN command input ????
Joe
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Posted by Lars on April 10, 2007, 4:50 pm
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>%SystemRoot%/wzploewe.wzw /n. /e. /select. C: backalsh.
>I guess that must be dont via the RUN command input ????
No, not at all. I told you exactly;
Right-click on the desktop, choose "new" from the drop down
menu, then "shortcut". Then you paste the following line in there;
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e, /select, C:\
You had better copy and paste the above row. It is very important it
is _exactly_ as I have it there.
Lars
Stockholm
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