For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Hi there. My home's wireless router is one floor down from my computer, so my wireless Internet connection is pretty bad.
So, I found an extra Ethernet cable and plugged it into the wall connection - yes, it does go through to my router and modem.
I am running Windows Vista. It shows that it is active and enabled, yet I cannot connect to it. You can by changing the gateway of the desktop to the IP address of the laptop.
Do you want make a network of just the desktop and laptop? Do you want to share internet across them? Option 2 may not be possible because perhaps all ethernet ports may have been used If you are trying option 1 make the laptop "Discoverable".
Go to "Network and sharing center" and set the "Network Discovery" option to "Yes". When I was trying to do the same thing, I remember I could access the laptop from desktop, but I could not ping it.
Link to a networking article on tp-link website. Changing to "No proxy" fixed it — "Autodetect proxy settings for this network" might do as well — and then I did the same for IE. Sign In Forum Help. Turn on suggestions.
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Showing results for. Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Author Topic: Connect XP to router via ethernet cable? Read times. My main computer runs Vista, and accesses the internet via broadband btinternet, with BTHub5 router.
This works fine. Can I connect this XP machine to my router via an ethernet cable? I have fitted the cable between the XP machine and the router, but the machine is still not connected.
Is there something I need to do with the software on the XP, or is it not possible to connect like this? Thanks for any help. In XP you have to setup the connection from scratch in Control Panel
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