Installing on a laptop question.

[nofalloff]

We have a Dell 8200 series laptop kicking around the office, on to which I would like to install Pro-e so that I could take it home on the weekends. However when it is not pluged (hard wire) into the network, the pro-e installer doesn

 

[dr_gallup]

here's one , here's another.

 

[Bill Thomson]

<DIV>You never stated which operating system you were using,</DIV>
<DIV>try this if it's w2k or NT, not too sure about XP.</DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV>1:START => RUN =>REGEDIT</DIV>
<DIV>2:Browse down through :</DIV>
<DIV> SYSTEM</DIV>
<DIV> CURRENT CONTROL SET</DIV>
<DIV> SERVICES</DIV>
<DIV> TCPIP</DIV>
<DIV>PARAMETERS</DIV>
<DIV>3:And create a new entry in parameters EXACTLY as follows :</DIV>
<DIV> DisableDHCPMediaSense = 1</DIV>
<DIV>4:Close exit, Restart.</DIV>

 

[nofalloff]

Thanks guys. I got it working. <?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />


For future reference by people searching this topic (

), once I knew it was the media sensing "feature" of windows I also found the answer here:


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q239924/