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Old February 7th 10, 01:04 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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Default networking ME to win 7 via router

The best thing you can do for yourself and your Win 7 PC is get rid of
Norton PDQ. The Win 7 firewall is more than sufficient, especially so if
you are sitting behind a router using NAT (Network Address Translation).
With Norton removed or at least Norton's firewall disabled the Win 7 machine
should be able to see the other PCs on your LAN and access shares on your
other PCs. Regrettably though this still won't allow your Win Me PCs to
access shares on the Win 7 machine.
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Mike Maltby



Rockytsquirrel wrote:

Greetings Mike,
I just purchased the "Dummies" book of win 7, so given enough time,
I hope I'll stumble upon the part I've been missing so far..

As I was telling Noel, I already have several items I need to
check on, the router, the vista machine, and for sure the win 7, plus
I did find out this machine is using NORTONS which has
disabled the win 7 firewall in favor of its own.. So that might
be part of the problem..
Hopefully I'll be able to remember all the problems I find and
pass them along to everybody..

Tks for all the feedback