All systems go!
Feb. 9th, 2002 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaThanks to the combined efforts of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
curiousangel, Ben, and an anonymous nice guy at the Comcast help desk, my new computer is now properly hooked up to our home network and thus to the Internet. We haven't yet solved the problem of transfering files from my old computer to my new one, but Ben's working on it. Yay Ben!
We'd originally been conisdering some drastic solutions to the unable-to-network problem, including ditching Windows XP and installing a more cooperative version of Windows. Now that that's clearly not going to be necessary, I've been able to go ahead and install all my software. I'm going to have to buy an upgrade for my reference manager, and I bought MS Office 2000 Professional at work for $25, but the rest of my older software seems to be working.
Oooh, this is exciting. I'd been running Windows 95 on an old tired machine. I feel so powerful.
curiousangel, Ben, and an anonymous nice guy at the Comcast help desk, my new computer is now properly hooked up to our home network and thus to the Internet. We haven't yet solved the problem of transfering files from my old computer to my new one, but Ben's working on it. Yay Ben!We'd originally been conisdering some drastic solutions to the unable-to-network problem, including ditching Windows XP and installing a more cooperative version of Windows. Now that that's clearly not going to be necessary, I've been able to go ahead and install all my software. I'm going to have to buy an upgrade for my reference manager, and I bought MS Office 2000 Professional at work for $25, but the rest of my older software seems to be working.
Oooh, this is exciting. I'd been running Windows 95 on an old tired machine. I feel so powerful.
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Re: WinXP problem
Date: 2002-02-10 12:58 pm (UTC)Not exactly, I fear. WinXP Home has some network capabilities, but the ones it has are designed more toward home and small office networks. The Network Setup Wizard has several options available, and WinXP provides some advice about configurations.
It does look like it's incapable of handling a LAN connection like the ones you're supporting, except maybe by choosing the "connect through a hub" option and enabling DHCP, and that seems like a boneheaded oversight on Microsoft's part.