Home Network - crossover cable setup - 2 LAN icons PROBLEM!

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Paul King

Do you have physically 2x Network cards in your machine, or 1x Network card
split into two network settings?

Regards
Paul.
 
hi there,

I am trying to set up a home network between my 2 computers to share
files.This computer has the right settings as it is able to share files with
someone else's pc and i was trying to set it to to share files with my pc.I
was having a look at the options that i was told to press at the time is was
setup so that i could use the same settings on my other pc so,my 2 pc's will
files share,but i went too far and landed up setting up the connection again
with the same settings.===>>>> NOW i have TWO LAN icons in my taskbar
permanently ! I have uninstalled the ether net card,tried to disable one of
them(but it simply disables the LAN) I have also uninstalled networking from
the add/remove windows components in the control panel.

So in short,my pc is trying to connect 2 LAN CONNECTIONS with my one
ethernet card.*

HOW do i get rid of the 2 connections ?!??? I have reinstalled XP and it
still wont go away

HELP!

I am also considering another option - to use the boot disk that i created
from Window Washer that wipes all files from the HDD permanently,if it
really does that.Then i have another problem.I tried to obtain a win98 boot
disk that has fdisk as i want to also change my partitions, from the web but
they will not write to cd as i do not have a fdd.Does anyone know where i
can get a copy that will write to CD??


Thanks for any help
 
Just to recap, you have 2x LAN connections in the Network connections
screen, namely LAN and LAN2 - if you disable one of those connections this
disables the other, right?

Regards
Paul.
 
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