With more than one Windows Vistabased PC in your home, and all of your digital memories, music and media, and other data stored on one computer, you know that its time to connect your home with a simple home network. Youll get the straightforward, approachable information you need (without the jargon!) to find what kind of network is right for you and get started setting up, configuring, and maintaining your local area network (LAN), wireless network, or remote network. Easy-to-follow procedures teach you how to help secure your network with firewalls and Windows Defender, plus control what your family can do online with parental controls. Youll even start to explore the advantages of Windows Home Server, including how to back up all of your precious data.

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Does not address the real issues of Vista networking - 2008-08-02
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This book is very basic. Most users savvy enough to try networking do not need help clicking Microsoft's wizard dialogs. They need troubleshooting help, and with Vista, a truckload of it.

Vista simplifies networking so you don't have to know very much about the technical aspects - as long as everything goes well. There is no troubleshooting or common issues guide in this book. It is essentially just a check list of setup instructions. One panel appears in two places (identical) which explain the way to cycle the power on your PCs, router, and cable modem to reset your whole network; basic and useful, but you can learn that on the Internet rather easily.

This book misses the real mark with Vista networking. Since it was published in Oct 2007, it is recent enough to address the thousands of Internet posts (including on Microsoft's own forums) for the "Local Only" Access issue with wireless Internet connections. But it says nothing about it. Out of 220 pages, this book has only 12 on wireless connectivity, and in Vista this area is a real boondoggle. Hardwired Internet connections are trivially easy to get working in Vista, but get about the same number of pages since it is a walkthrough of nearly the same setup Wizards as wireless.

This all strikes me as just another book written in parallel to a Microsoft product launch intended to help ultra-beginners. Handholding a few, but not helpful for most of us that really need to read a book with this title. If you want to setup a Vista home server for backups, setup parental controls, or do printer/folder sharing on a home network, etc. and barely know how to drive Windows, then I guess this may be your book; but that would make you rather unusual.

Not good value for money! - 2008-09-05
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I find this book not practical at all. It only reviews the Windows Vista home networking procedures and principles. There are no topics on troubleshooting common networking issues at all!

Clear and to the point - 2007-12-13
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Excellent manual for network installation and support. Should be a part of all Vista users library.

Windows Vista: Home Networking - 2009-03-04
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I do not like this book. It's does not explain or show how to set up a network in a clear way. I would not buy this book

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