could someone take my hand & run me through this please bought a new Dell XPS M1530 running vista home premium & connected to router wirelessly no probs but what i,m trying to do is connect my laptop to my main pc (which is runnung XP pro)wirelessly to share files rather than transfering them with usb stick which is time consumming & a pain in the arse any help is always appreciated Thanx

Well I don't know about vista however XP has a suitable walkthrough in it's Help & Support menu. Goin' Fishin' (Some day)

I would suggest looking at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/... as describing how to do it can be quite lenghty. Silence is golden but duct tape is silver

I found your request some what unclear. Are you trying to share files that are on a vista machine to a machine that is running xp or are you trying to share files from a xp machine to a computer that is running vista? If the files are on a vista machine, the links mensioned above will proov unusefull, consider reading http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind... for a howto. It should be simple enough but if you run into trouble just post back.

thanx for replying guys but i,m still stuck i want to take files from my main pc (XP) & add them to my laptop (Vista) another problem is in Network & Sharing center at the top of the page is a little computer with the name of my laptop & a line going through to a world globe which says internet but in the middle theres a red cross i've been told this is because when i set vista up i clicked on public sharing & not private problem is i don't know how to change back to private sharing (please don't say click on the customize button because i don't have one it's not there i don't know who took it but the fu***rs not there & it's driving me crazy i'm gonna throw this fu****g laptop out the window HELP!!!

O right, xp to vista - easy enough: on the xp box: 1: find the folder that you want to share - it is easier if this is not inside documents and settings, so thats nothing on your desktop or my documents; just put it in the root of a harddrive. 2: Right click and click sharing. 3: check the box that says share this folder and type in a name then click ok. 4: right click my computer > properties > computer > change and note down your computers name. On the vista box: 1: open \\xpcomputername in explorer; the folder that you shared should come up. Thats the very basics of file and printer sharing - theres some fancy stuff that you can do with users but I don't think its needed at this point. Hth.

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