I have to take my Vaio laptop back to Sony for them to reinstall my entire system etc, to try and solve a weird technical glitch with the software I use.
The prospect of re-setting up all the complicated network settings (the laptop connects to an external ADSL modem, then to a wireless router, which serves two Mac laptops) is doing my head in.
Is there anyway I can save the internet/networks settings? (I will burn them to CD) Eg: where are they on my system? (Win 2000). That way I could copy the settings back across. I know how to do this on a Mac, but I don’t know where they are or what they’re called on PC.
Check out http://is-it-true.org/nt/nt2000/utips/utips46.shtml . In Win2000 and up netsh.exe can save and restore network settings to a text file. After a day of searching, fiddling, cursing “Incorrectly criticising my grammar is worth a graphic front end so annoying it makes people’s brain spontaneously vaporise, so why is this a command line program?” I managed to get two shortcuts on my desktop that switch between two networks I’m on.
I don’t know if it will store all your more complicated settings, but you could try.
OTOH, if you want to be sure, I’d write everything down by hand (or c&p into a text file manually).
netsh should work fine. Dunno why shade had a problem because the site he links tells you exactly what to type. Type just “netsh -c interface dump” at a command prompt and you’ll be able to see what settings it’s saving.
I just wish that there had been a hint about this on the network settings control panel folder, or something. I mean, typing ‘netsh /?’ into a command promt isn’t the most self evident way of switching network settings.
OK, now I know what to search for I can find the reference in the MS knowledge base. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so descriptive in my last post - I think I try to sound over the top to try to make my posts more interesting
