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Windows XP patch for Sharing with Vista - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120

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2) Or you can setup a wireles connection as follows:

-connect your PC with your wireless router.
-Go to 'Network and Sharing Center' from your control panel in your Laptop.
-click 'set up a connection or a network' from the list on the left side.
-click 'set up a wireless ad-hoc (computer to computer connection)'
-give any name and password you want and turn on wireless.
-See if they get connected, then right click on the folder containing your videos in your laptop. Select 'properties', go to sharing tab.

-Click on 'Share' and select 'Everyone' in the dropdown list.

If the above method doesn't work, then there's another way as follows:

2) You can use LAN as follows. It is very simple:
- You must verify that you have a LAN card on your laptop and PC.
- Go to any computer hardware shop and ask for a CROSS LAN cable. (Ask for Cross cable, and NOT Straight cable.)
- Now insert one LAN pin of the cable into the PC and the other into the laptop.
- Right click on the LAN icon on the taskbar of your Vista laptop, and go to network and sharing center.
- On the left bar, click on 'Manage Network connections'.
- Find Local Area Connections, right click on it and click 'Properties'.
- Click on 'Internet Protocol v4.0 (TCP/IPv4)' in it. Below, click on 'Properties' again.
- Enter 195.222.123.2 as IP address, 255.255.255.0 as Subnet mask, 111.111.111.111 as Default gateway.

-Similarly, enter IP address 195.222.123.1 in your XP PC, 255.255.255.0 subnet mask, 111.111.111.111 as default gateway.

-Next, you have to right click on the folder containing your videos in your laptop. Select 'properties', go to sharing tab.

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