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re: what abt the
Saturday, May 22, 2004 at 2:52 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike
(2 messages posted)
I seem to be narrowing down the problem.
There is definately a compatability issue between XP Home and NIS2003 which has only
arisen as a result of a recent update. XP Pro does not seem to have the same problem.
While upgarding to NIS 2004 resolves the system speed and internet speed problems
and prevents the timing out etc, depending whether you have a network installed you
may appear to lose some of your notification icons and have problems with your email.
The problem seems to be caused by the new network identification facility built into
NIS2004. If you are running on a peer to peer network and had other computers running
during the original installation it will set this as the default network, and after
installation and some configuration everything seems to be fine and dandy. But later,
should you boot up and the other pcs are not turned on, NIS thinks "I can't see the
other PCs therefore you must be on a different network, therefore I'm going to screw
up all your settings and block everything in a very unuser friendly way."
Depending on how you use your network the best solution seems to be to uninstall
NIS2004, turn all the other pcs on the network off and reinstall it on the machine
you usually switch on first. You can install it on the others with this machine
still running as it normally would be when you boot them up.
I know this won't solve all the problems being reported in this thread but I know
it has solved mine, and 2 colleagues.
Regards
Mike
On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 at 7:26 am, Mike wrote:
>Well this may or may not help to narrow the problem.
>
>This problem started with me following a recent liv update of NIS2003. After some
>research it was suggested that this maybe conflict between XP and 2003 for this
particular
>update (I was also have problems with my broadband speed and the computer had slowed
>somewhat as well.) I upgraded to NIS2004 and that worked beautifully - UNTIL I DID
>A LIVE UPDATE!!! Arrrgghhhh - back to square one! Uninstalling NIS solves the problem
>and returns all the icons but personally I would rather have the protection.
>
>However, the above does seem to confirm that this is an NIS problem.
>
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