Vista losing connection

[rh91uk]

Hi all - firstly, I apologise that this is a long shot i was wondering if anyone could help me out...?

I have a vista laptop on my domain at school. As probably usual, we have network wide start menu/desktop for the Staff group generally. But, on this vista laptop - it seems to be always constantly loosing its desktop asnd start menu. It's very intermittent! A log off/log on corrects the problem.

I am thinking this is a problem with a possible bottleneck in our network (we have Network Diag people coming in Monday coinsidentely- something our LEA provides ) but I was wondering if, maybe there is a vista issue, or if any one knows a fix I can use for this?

I would be so so so greatful!

Cheers,

R

[AngryTechnician]

Not an issue we've experienced on any of our Vista domain machines, and we have over 200 of them now.

Nothing in the event logs to suggest a cause?

[rh91uk]

Yeah looked through the event logs.

Its a tad annoying! May very well be that bottleneck.

Thanks for replying!

[moiebus]

It sounds more like power settings causing the connection to drop. We have Vista laptops with redirected desktops etc and had this problem for a while, changing the sleep/hibernate/hard drive timing has stopped it.
It also would not show up it event log as the behaviour is 'normal'
Worth a look....

[rh91uk]

@ moiebus - this is something I have also considered - but didn't really look into. Cheers dude, I will let you know how I get on!

[dhoward_westexetc]

I have had this issue with laptops I have tested Vista on.

A first step I always do now when building Vista laptops is I update the wireless card drivers to the very latest ones available. If an Intel card, I always download from the Intel website. As soon as I do that the wireless connects more consistently.

Hi all - firstly, I apologise that this is a long shot i was wondering if anyone could help me out...?

I have a vista laptop on my domain at school. As probably usual, we have network wide start menu/desktop for the Staff group generally. But, on this vista laptop - it seems to be always constantly loosing its desktop asnd start menu. It's very intermittent! A log off/log on corrects the problem.

I am thinking this is a problem with a possible bottleneck in our network (we have Network Diag people coming in Monday coinsidentely- something our LEA provides ) but I was wondering if, maybe there is a vista issue, or if any one knows a fix I can use for this?

I would be so so so greatful!

Cheers,

R