• Open Network.
• Click on the Network Interface Card, then click on Remove.
• Click on OK.

Allow Windows to restart the computer for it to take effect.

• Double-click on the Network icon.

• Click on Add, then Adapter, then Add again.
• Select your make and model of card.
• Click on OK.

• Click on Add, then Client, then Add again.
• Select Microsoft, then Client for Microsoft Networks.
• Click OK.

• If you want a password box to come up every time you start your computer, do nothing.
• If you don't want the password box each time you start windows:
• Click on the arrow button to the right of the Primary Network Logon field.
• Select Windows Logon.
• When you start Windows, leave the password field blank in the password box. You will not see it again after that.
• If you have already entered a password, and now have to remove it:
• Go to Control Panel and double-click on Passwords.
• Click on the Change Windows password button.
• In the top field enter your existing password.
• Leave the other two fields blank and click the OK button.

• Click on the NetBEUI Protocol entry, then click on the Remove button. (Note that if you have more than one computer in a local area network sharing the high speed Internet connection, you will need NetBEUI enabled for file and printer sharing. In this case see the peer-to-peer configuration page.)

• Click on Add, then Protocol, then Add again.
• Select Microsoft, then TCP/IP.
• Click on OK.

• On the Bindings tab:
• For security purposes, unselect all entries.
• When you get a Window telling you that you "have not selected anything to bind to, do you want to select one now", click the No button.
• If you have a DHCP server on your network (almost all cable and DSL high speed internet connections use DHCP to supply configuration information to the computer):
• On the IP Address tab:
• Select Obtain an address automatically.
• Click the OK button because you're done here.
• If you don't have a DHCP server assigning IP addresses:
• On the IP Address tab:
• Select Specify an IP address.
• For typical home networks, you can use an IP network number (the first three fields) of 192.168.0. This network number needs to be the same on all computers on the same network.
• Use a unique number for the fourth field for each computer, from the range 1 to 254.
• Use a mask for all computers of 255.255.255.0.
• On the WINS tab:
• Click Disable WINS resolution.
• On the Gateway tab:
• If you have one computer on your network that is going to be the gateway to the Internet for all the computer on the network, put the IP address of that computer in the New Gateway field, then click the Add button. If you are using a network number of 192.168.0 as suggested above, the first three fields here will also be 192.168.0.
• On the DNS configuration tab:
• Click Enable DNS.
• The host name must be unique on your network. For a host name you could put in the same as you used to identify your computer in the Identification section above.
• Do not fill in the domain, leave it blank.
• In the DNS server search order field, if you are using a proxy server such as WinGate as your connection to the Internet, enter the IP address of the proxy server here and click the Add button. This will be the same address as the gateway address above.
• If you are using NAT for your Internet access, enter the address or addresses of the DNS hosts on your ISP.
• On the Advanced tab:
• No need for changes here.
• On the NetBIOS tab:
• For security reasons, do not enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
• Click the OK button.

• When Windows restarts you will have to enter a username if no name is filled in.
• You do not need a password, just leave that part blank if you wish.
• Click on OK.
• If you have entered a new username, you will see another window asking you to reenter your password. If you chose to have no password, just click on the OK button again. If you chose to use a password, reenter it and then click on OK.
• Note that clicking on the Cancel button will cause you to not be connected to the Internet.