networking Vista with XP

Hello everyone,
long time no post for me. Anyway I have a question about networking my Lap top Vista premium with my desktop XP sp2. My desktop was built by me. It is an older computer with a 2.57 pent. 4 pros. one 160 gig hard drive and about 750 in memory and is hard wired into a wirerless router.
My Lap top is about 6 month old it has Vista prem. dual core pross. I think it is about a 1.6 pross. It has 1024 meg of memory and a 60 gig hard drive. It is wiresessly contected to the router. They both are on the internet at the same time so I know it is seeing and using the router. Anyway just wondering if anyone knew if there was someplace to go to have a step by step teaching on getting them to talk to each other?
Thanks :)
Ed

Look in Vista's HELP section for info...

If you haven't already, I suggest review the steps in this TechNet Article and see if this helps you. Let us know how it goes, and report back if you need more help.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx

In xp go to "my network places", ignore the network browser, hit F3 and search for the other computer name. In Vista, essentialy the same procedure but a bit more complicated.


(Warning - VISTA will cook a notebook...)

Good morning
Please explain "(Warning - VISTA will cook a notebook...)"

I have a similar setup and I purchased a software named Network Magic and it is working great.

Hello again.
Thanks for that infomation about that soft wear, I will look it up. But my question is your statment about "(Warning - VISTA will cook a notebook...)" I was wondering why you say that?
Thanks
Ed

I did not say that. I don't know why it would.

Actually far from cooking a notebook, Vista has better power management and should help it run cooler.

You may find these articles helpful:

Windows Vista Networking

Windows Vista Network and Sharing Centre

Introducing Vista's Network Centre

Thanks for that info, Still wondering why he said that? Maybe he will answer.