Re: FYI: Dell lets Vista Business Users revert to XP

Christopher Muto wrote:
the networking symptoms that you describe, and lots of others specific to wireless networking with vista, are supposed to have been resolved with some of the many updates. however, there have been problems with some machines getting updates... check to see if there are any windows updates available to you. or just load xp so you don't have to be a beta tester for microsoft anymore.

I have had similar problems with XP & wired networking. Tore out far too much hair that I didn't have to spare. :)
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