Please help oh wise TEF.
My old man uses Vista, his network keeps going tits up, reseting itself to public, disallowing internet access and all mapped drives stop working. He'll call me for help, i go around and Vista is so far removed from what i'm used to, it becomes like walking through treacle to try and fix. At least networking was simple in XP.
So, he's been told that as he has Vista Basic on 3 machines they need a clean install to run Windows 7 and the other runs Home Premium which apparently can be done as an upgrade.
I don't know how much of this is right and if i'm going to help him with this i want it as simple as possible.
So, can i get the internet and mapped drives working easily as things are? And remain working? (I spent hours a few months ago getting it going, but forget how i did it and now it all fails. Again.)
Will Windows 7 make the networking bollocks simple?
Will i be alright for drivers and everything if i get copies of 7 and i have to do clean installs on all machines?
I'm so fucking angry at this shit. Why does everything suddenly go fucking mental and what on earth makes a computer suddenly decide a network is public and therefore using the internet and any mapped drives is not permissable?
Thanks, beers on me to any problem solvers.