Hello, I've been trying for a few hours to setup a wired LAN connection between a vista system and a windows 7 system to no prevail. All I want to do is be able to directly connect the two computers to play a LAN game without requiring the internet. I can do this in XP fine, but vista is giving me some major hassles. I've tried just about everything I can think of and still no success. In XP there was a wizard that helped create the Local Area Connection, in Vista I can't seem to find this and the only options I have are pretty much wireless, except for broadband and dial up, internet connection and this isn't what I want. How do I create this new connection, fyi, I do not want to create a wireless ad-hoc I want it to be specifically wired, between the two systems so this works? Thank you for your help in advance.

Ok, so there aren't any Vista experts on a Vista forum that know how to do this properly?

Hi, Please try the following steps: 1. Go To Control Panel 2.Click Network And Internet 3. Click Network And Sharing Center 4 Click Manage Network Connections 5. Right Click Local Area Connection and press enable. Regards,Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Check out this article to connect 2 computers directly with crossover cable, not difficult to get it done. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the replies. Magon Liu, I appreciate the steps. Once I do all that, will that automatically create a new LAN connection? Dawooddoe, exactly what I was looking for. I needed to know how to manually input the information in Windows 7 and I couldn't find that. Thank you.

Yes it does.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.