turn it back on, ipv6 is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay faster than ipv4.
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I'm still struggling to work my way around vista as it is a lot different to XP |
Really? i've found its almost identical, the shortcut keys all do the same thing, the access to features is by the same method give or take one hop. Your management console is still under right click computer>manage and networking is still under right clicking on network. There's just way too many ways to get at the same info; more hops and methods.
For network, right click on network and go to properties iirc.
Now, I would suggest re-enabling ipv6 on vista it was a bad thing to turn off. I would then get your xp cd and install ipv6 on your xp machine. the protocol is on the cd if you don't have it installed in system32 already.
Now, you need to right click my computer / computer and set the workgroup to both be exactly the same and each machine have a different name.
Then plugin the cross over cable, and wait for it to be detected. It it has a little ! in a yellow triangle, right click it and select repair.
That's all you need to do; same work group, different ips + repair to clean out old settings.
If your not using wireless, right click and disable it.