Windows networking / PC issue

[Cliphead]

I've installed Linux and now Internet Explorer has vanished!

And suddenly it all became clear...

[Shimano105]

We're on page 2 and no one has suggested you need a Mac. Not even Fitzy.

[Spacecadet]

We're on page 2 and no one has suggested you need a Mac. Not even Fitzy.

Is the Mac to protect him from all the anti-windows frothing?
I can definitely see how the waterproof properties will come in handy there!

[daviejones]

We're on page 2 and no one has suggested you need a Mac. Not even Fitzy.

Sorry dude, YOU NEED A MAC!!!

Happy?




P.S. It's true, they just work...

[DimPrawn]

I've come to the conclusion that the driver for the Atheros wireless built into the Acer Aspire R3600 is not working 100% under Windows 7.

Hopefully a proper Windows 7 driver will be released soon and it will be able to cope with more than 1 mbit bandwidth.

Googling shows lots of angry people with an Atheros wireless and slow connections.

[bogeyman]

"This behaviour is by design" - Microsoft Knowledge Base.

There's a registry hack though...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Reliability\RunLikeBuggeryButCrashOften = 1

[Bright Spark]

Try disabling the HomeGroup and see if it helps.

[Sysman]

There's a registry hack though...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Reliability\RunLikeBuggeryButCrashOften = 1

Wasn't someone here saying that C: drives are pegged to run more slowly than other disks so that Winders could run more reliably?

Ah, here we go:

NB C: drives on windows servers are deliberately slowed down for disk writes (protection against power fail), D Drive is not so expect better read / write.

Can someone explain the logic there to me please?

[vetran]

yep if you are too tight to buy a proper raid card windows assumes the worst.

Was that M$ protecting its users?

[PingPing]

You could try using Wireshark to help in the diagnosis of your networking problem. If you're not familiar with using Wireshark then I'd recommend reading Practical Packet Analysis by Chris Sanders. Even though Wireshark comes from a *nix background, it's been ported to Windows and the aforementioned book explains how to use it under both platforms.