I HAVE A CONNECTION STATUS THAT SAY "UNKNOWN.THE DEPENDENCY SERVICE OR GROUP FAILED TO START'; I DONT WHAT IT MEANS BUT I COULD STILL GO ON -LINE AND TO THE INTERNET.IT MAY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE COMPUTER SAYING "CONFLICTING IP ADRESSES' -ITS SAYING THAT TWO COMPUTERS ON THIS NETWORK HAVE THE SAME IP ADDRESSES.FOR ONE THING I HAVE ONLY ONE COMPUTER AND IT IS HOOKED STRAIGHT TO THE DSL MODEM.CAN ANYBODY HELP ME AND EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THIS MEANS?IT MIGHT LEAD TO MORE COMPUTER PROBLEMS AND A FAILURE.

Hello, Please understand that we mainly discuss Exchange issues in this forum, in order to get a prompt and exact answer, I suggest writing a post on the Vista networking forums: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistanetworking/threads/Thanks, Elvis Elvis Wei