Thanks for your response. I've actually made some progress with this problem but it still isn't right.

After much fooling about I can finally create a folder on Vista, share it and have it seen...

Laser, thanks for the tips.

How about Password Protected Sharing? I have that currently 'OFF'.

Re the firewall, that's also 'OFF'.

Can you comment please?

Monty007, thanks also. I know...

I've got four desktop computers in a LAN. Three are running XPPro, one is running Vista Ultimate.

All of the XP machines can fully share with each other and the Vista pc can grab stuff from the...

As I said in my first post, the sound card has a Fortemedia chipset, labelled FM801-AU. The only labelling on the card itself are the words 'VER:2.3' but it also bears a paper sticker that says 'SP...

Thanks, but Everest just shows that Fortemedia Audio and Fortemedia Joystick are installed. There's no mention of a card manufacturer.

I'm trying to fix up an older pc for a friend. The motherboard is an Asus MEW-AM, v.2.01, (an Asus\HP hybrid), the OS is XP Pro SP2.

The motherboard has no onboard sound, so I added an un-branded...

Hi to all from a first poster :-)

I have an odd problem with Outlook Express 6, running on a newly-setup XPProSP2 laptop.

When I access mail from this machine, it won't leave the messages on...