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Re: WindowsXP <-> Windows7 Talk {No Pinging allowed} Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by caperjack [QUOTE=Siberian;1061672] It doesn't make sense.[/QUOTE] your right it doesn't ,but to the best of my knowledge ,ping is a network troubleshooting command to use to see if you can connect to a network ,has no other purpose ,i don't think, so yours' is working ,just not pinging ,so no harm no foul, maybe a firewall issue .you could disable … Re: WindowsXP <-> Windows7 Talk {No Pinging allowed} Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Siberian I have a firewall but not Windows Firewall, a third party firewall program. That is what is probably blocking the PING command. Although when I disabled the firewall completely and ran PING from Windows7 I got this error, [B]PING[/B]: [I][B]Transmit Failure, General Failure[/B][/I]. Re: WindowsXP <-> Windows7 Talk {No Pinging allowed} Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by markdean [QUOTE=Siberian;1061845]I have a firewall but not Windows Firewall, a third party firewall program. That is what is probably blocking the PING command. Although when I disabled the firewall completely and ran PING from Windows7 I got this error, [B]PING[/B]: [I][B]Transmit Failure, General Failure[/B][/I].[/QUOTE] OK, first, make sure that … windowsxp Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by luv48jimmie I gave my cousin my old PC and they cannot log onto windows(it is just blue screen)without username and password which I forgot...It wont let them even goto accounts or anything..what else could they possibly try? Re: windowsxp Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by rch1231 Could be something as simple as the monitor not displaying the resolution. Have him hit the <F8> repeatedly as the system is booting and see if he can bring it up in safe mode. 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