USB flash drives and the Internet with Windows Vista

Make sharing a net connection easy

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Fun with USB flash drives

One of the neat demos Microsoft gave was how easy it is in Windows Vista to share a network connection. If you have a net connection, you can plug in a USB key and you can turn it into a quasi-wireless share device. Then hand it over to other people and once they plug in that USB key, the auto-run on it will set up the network connection automatically.

You could imagine how easy that would make getting a LAN game going or something. You could share connections under XP, but it was a lot more tedious. This, by contrast, was incredibly easy.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Very cool feature. It's the little things like that that are going t make me want to switch over. I wonder if the settings created on Vista will work with XP as the secondary?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have always had trouble with this on XP.  This sounds like a great feature, and I hope it works as well as it sounds.

  

 

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