I have a couple of issues here. First, I have a wireless network set up at home that wife & I use our laptops with. My WIndows 7 (Ultimate) (& her mini WIn7 (Starter) laptop) automatically connect to our wireless network, but for some reason, her Vista laptop will not. You have to go in & manually connect each & every time! From what I remember, this wasn't always the case - did a MS update 'fix' this? Second issue involves a Vista Ultimate laptop that one of my clients uses at home & at work. Work environment is a 2008 SBS & laptop is a member of the domain. She has 3 network drives mapped & when ever she starts up, mapped drives have red X's on them. If you double click mapped drive, you get the message 'An error occurred while reconnecting to M: to \\Server\shared_folder The network path was not found. The connection has not been restored'. Usually, restarting a couple of time will fix this, and again, this is not a problem with any WIn7 or XP laptops on the network. Any suggestions (besides upgrading to Win7!) Thanks-

Wow! 62 replies & not one answer?!?!? I think someone ought to bring a class action suit against Microsoft, with plaintiffs receiving free Windows 7 upgrades & lawyers being paid in Vista upgrades (ha-ha!).

Hi, To avoid confusion, I suggest we focuc on the first wireless networking issues. It could be blocked by certain third party software, I suggest prepare clean boot on the Starter laptop to troubleshoot: Http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796 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.

I can try clean boot, but the Windows 7 Starter, along with my Windows 7 Ultimate connect automatically just fine. It's the Vista laptop that has to manually connect each & every time...

Ok, tried the clean boot & nothing changed. What I did find is in the Manage Wireless Networks section was about 50 different instances of my wireless network! Deleted them all out, re-connected, rebooted & it's now working like it should. Any suggestions on my other situation?

Hi, Glad you have identify the root cause of the first issue. With regarding to the second one, as this forum focuses on Windows Vista specific issues, this inquiry would best be posted to SMS forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbusinessserver/threads The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding. 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.

Sorry! Things are back to doing the same thing... Any other suggestions?