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Introducing Vista's Network Center

If you have ever worked as a consultant or even just helped out a friend with a computer problem, then you have probably been in a situation in which you sat down at an unfamiliar workstation and had to get an idea of how the system was configured prior to working on the problem. Although Windows XP's network configuration options are pretty straightforward, you usually can't get all of the particulars of a machine's network connectivity at a glance.

In Windows Vista though, Microsoft has made it a lot easier to quickly gather information about how a workstation is connected to a network through a new component called the Network Center. In this article I will show you what the Network Center is and how it may eventually make your life easier. Introducing Vista?s Network Center

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