Vista "talks" to XP PCs constantly!

[Tachyon]

I installed Vista RC 1 Build 5600 on one PC which is part of my home
three-PC network. I have noticed these days that the network icons of the
two XP SP 2 PCs are constantly lit up for receive for hours at a time. The
packet counter does verify that data is being received. The transmit part
does light up from time to time. The network icon on the vista PC is
correspondingly lit constantly too.

I temporarily disconnected one of the XP PCs (checked for both actually) and
verified that this communication was still taking place between the other XP
PC and the Vista one.

This has gone on for two days now. Is there a way to find out what is going
on? All three PCs have been checked for virii and malware. None exist.

I know all networked PCs send out and receive periodic "semaphores" but have
never seen continuous activity like this even when no application was
active.

BTW, this activity does not affect the functioning of the machines in any
way. I am asking this out of curiosity. I did not see such activity with
earlier Vista releases.

Regards and thanks.

Tachyon
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[Jack]

That is called evolution.
RC1 tries to get as much information from XP as possible.
You see, live organisms have that in genes, new OS does not have genes.
Jack

 

[Tachyon]

That is called evolution.
RC1 tries to get as much information from XP as possible.
You see, live organisms have that in genes, new OS does not have genes.
Jack

Aah, a taste of the coming man-machine nexus, perhaps. And maybe the
faintest first glimmerings of machine intelligence, or the quest thereof.

Very interesting theory I do admit. And intriguing - but, while OSes may not
have genes, their innate information gathering drive appears pretty much
akin to the human hunter-gatherer instinct.



Tachyon

 

[Jack]

Aah, a taste of the coming man-machine nexus, perhaps. And maybe the
faintest first glimmerings of machine intelligence, or the quest thereof.

Very interesting theory I do admit. And intriguing - but, while OSes may
not
have genes, their innate information gathering drive appears pretty much
akin to the human hunter-gatherer instinct.



Tachyon

 

[AJR]

Tachyon - Evolution has been., and still is, evolving - with that said - FYI
I have had the last three (maybe four) builds of Vista in a joint network
with XPs and do not, and did not, experience your "problem".

 

[Guest]

Bets are strong it's the new talk-back-to-Redmond part of VISTA and the
ability to auto-shutdown your system, plus the Gatespyware being
transmogrified into your XP's from the VISTA.

They can deny all they want, but just wait.
Conspiracy Theorists Unite!

 

[Guest]

Someone had watched "I Robot," and "The Matrix" too many times.

I may however have a decent theory. As part of a network, and if you have
noticed, Vista is built, seemingly in a heavy networking platform. The answer
may be as simply as the vista PC doing round robin pings on the network to
make sure that the status hasn't changed.
At work, I use an advanced network of standard Win 2000 based computers and
more basic PLCs (Programmable Logic controllers). Control consoles (Win 2000
computers) are constantly pinging the remote PLCs to check for operation,
status and possible errors. This, in essense, is most likely what your Vista
unit is doing. It is pinging for status updates.
See, home networks aren't like large lan based systems where you have a
server feeding the computers. In a large network, the server would run
diagnostics and run systenmatic tests of the network and satellite computers.
Home networks are different. you have 3 computers and a half a router (not
making fun of it, but your netgear router can hardly compare to major network
router). So the computers are more or less required to keep themselves in
order.
What may be happening is your vista computer trying to act like a base of
sorts for your network. the common in essense. Running tests and checking for
the status of our other two computers.

Just a thought.

All information given here is done without guarantee. I am not an IT person,
just a lowly user. I work with comptuers, but I am not an expert. Everything
I say here is based on theory and idea. Take it at that..