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#1 User is offline   ButchN 

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 08:59 AM

Hi guys, I have the 1st Vista PC (Vista Basic) at my company.

My IT guy (& I) are not familiar with Vista enough to figure out how to get it to come up with a logon, not the windows logon, but the logon for the network itself.

What happened is when I turn my PC on in the morning I have no logon then to get to the network, I have to click on the server shortcut I made, which the network logon comes up, then to print I have to click on the printer short I made to initilize the printer before I can print.

So anyone know how I can make my PC boot up to the logon screen & also get my network printer to initiaze when I logon?

Thanks.


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Posted 30 January 2008 - 09:37 AM

Vista home Basic WILL NOT join a domain.

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 10:13 AM

You need Vista business, enterprise, or ultimate to join a domain. Otherwise, no go.

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 12:39 PM

Thanks guys.

I guess my company bought "too cheap" eh!

Is there a way to make it so the 2 shortcuts I mentioned laod after windows starts so all I have to do is enter my logon info vs. me having to click 2 shortcuts then enter?

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 01:11 PM

You'll still have to enter creds, but just copy the shortcuts to the "startup" folder in your start menu.

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 08:03 AM

View Postcluberti, on Jan 30 2008, 03:11 PM, said:

You'll still have to enter creds, but just copy the shortcuts to the "startup" folder in your start menu.
That's what I thought, as always, you da man!! Thanks!

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