Some NICs don't work well with the MediaSense feature (MediaSense is the code that watches your NIC and pops up the ballon saying 'unplugged' among other things); you can disable it using this: ...
I am trying to network my sisters laptop to her desktop PC. Laptop is WinXP pro and desktop is WinMediaCenter. I ran Network Wizzard and named each PC and assigned an identical Workgroup name to each ...