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I think most of us have been already played with Vista operation system.

Someone likes it, someone have a negative experience with it. This article will be for second ones.

Yes. Vista looks nice, but has a lot of compatibility issues. Such issues
related to hardware drivers problems or applications running problems. I had no possibility to allow working my ATI Radeon 1950XT graphics card with ATI drivers (it could work with MS drivers, but only as 1900 family card). My favorite video player - GomPlayer - does not work, no Java applications work stable and some more problems.

I’ve played with Vista during trial period and have decided to turn back
Windows XP. The system drive had been reformatted and XP installed. After the XP installation I had some troubles with system stability until I’ve not fixed the MBR - Master Boot Record. Now XP works fine for me.

I got a connection issue with my Windows Vista when I just installed it over my Windows XP Media Edition.

The same wireless router was shown as “Local Only” in my list of available Wi-Fi connections.

I tried to find an answer over internet and found following topics with different solutions:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us

http://www.windowsvistaweblog.com/2007/05/26/windows…

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us…

But nothing worked for me.

Then I tried to reinstall Wireless connection setting on my Router using installation CD and it made the trick.

Please, let me know what helped you, because I still have the same issue while using my laptop in most of internet cafes and so on. As I understood, not every router resolves DHCP in a correct way from the Vista stand of point.

Thanks,
Alex
e-mail: alex@softlabz.com
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