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Hardware Profiles - Windows 98

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NathanBWF

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A co-worker has a laptop that he wants to use on our small network. We use static IP addresses. I set him up for the office no problem, but when he also wants to still use it at home where he has a dynamic IP address. I thought you could use hardware profiles to save IP configuration so that I don't have to change it for him every morning, but I just tried it and it doesn't work. Is it even possible using hardware profiles and if not what are some other options...?

The laptop has only one network card...
 
I don't believe so. Normally, the various different "hardare profiles", contain a "config bitmask" for each device listed in the device manager. Meaning, that inside HKLM\Enum, all of the devices from both hardware profiles exist, and the two different hardware profile configs simply contain a set of on/off sort of config flags for each of those devices.

The information for static IP address settings, is contained in a different area of the registry, and is therefore not independently-differentiated by the different hardware profiles.

I think that there are some 3rd-party utilities designed primarily for laptops, to do exactly what you want, supporting multiple "network profiles" to change networking settings based on location.

http://www.netswitcher.com/
http://www.mobilenetswitch.com/
http://www.bluehighwaysoftware.com/MNM.htm
 
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