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Old 01-01-2008   #5 (permalink)
Richard H O'Keefe


 
 

Re: Network Printing Problem with Vista

No. File sharing has not been disabled.

Thanks, Richard

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:28:54 -0600, Clevo
<Clevo.32hk03@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote:
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>
>this is the same problem I had with my network.
>
>I would lose the connection between the two PC I have networked and the
>culprit was a utility in the Thinkpad notebook running XP.
>
>A security utility called ThinkVantage would turn off file and print
>sharing with every re-start.
>
>I disabled this aspect of the utility and everything worked very well.
>
>to check yours...
>
>re-start your notebook... check to see if File & Print Sharing has been
>disabled. (even though you enabled it before shutting down)
>
>If this happens to you look for third party security utilities
>installed usually with name brand PC (Dell, ThinkPad, etc).
>
>
>--
>Clevo
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