Phoenix

Somebody asked me how to setup a wifi home network. so i thot posting here wud be a good idea. This deals wid working on Windows. Do not be afraid on looking at the length of the tutorial. i've tried to be as descriptive as possible so that you do not haf any kinda confusion. read it once mebbe twice or thrice before attempting. This tut. assumes that you wanna include a laptop and a desktop in ur home wifi network in the first part and share a net connection in the second part. i'm not discussing an ad-hoc connection here. its a normal wlan setup. OK, to create a home wlan you will need the following: 1) Desktop wifi pci card/usb adaptor ~Rs. 1k 2) A wifi access point cum router (which has rj45 connectors to connect at least 1 ethernet cable). price ranges from about Rs. 2.5k to 5k. select the one which has at least 1 ethernet connector. 3) A normal ethernet cable to configure ur wifi router for the first time and also to troubleshoot. (a cross over won't do.. it shud be a...

I must say I miss Vista looks but XP functionality is more important for me. So I set out to make my desktop look more like Vista. OK, a more 'Vista'ish desktop here: Resources used: MS Visual Style: VistaVG by Vishal Icons: Icontweaker with Vista Theme Transparencies: XP Visual Tools Toolbar in Explorer: Styler with Vista Theme Sidebar: Thoosje's Sidebar Vista Start Menu: ViStart (Though I don't use it as I haf problems with some of its features) Reason why I don't recommend transformation packs is that of all the times I've used them and uninstalled it has completely messed up the system files (shell32.dll etc.). No matter how much I try to restore from the Installation Disc it jus won't go back. Reinstallation has been the only option for me.