I'm posting here in hopes that someone has had a similar problem and can advise me.  I'm not that savvy with computers and don't want to try anything experimental on my own, without guidance...

 

I just got a inspiron 1501 with Vista to replace  my old inspiron 3800 with Windows 2000.

 

Two problems I'm having:

 

1. I volunteer with an animal rescue, and have had no issues with accessing a website called petharbor.com with my old computer.  However, with my new computer, I am able to bring up the home page of the website, get to the second screen, and cannot proceed further, nothing...it just contiually tries to access it with no luck.  After trying this multiple times, I then boot up my old computer, and bring up the same site fully funtionable with no issues with MS 2000. 

 

This has led me to believe that there is some security feature (?) that Vista is implementing that is not allowing me access?  Or am I on the wrong track completely? 

 

Could someone advise me on this.  I do not want to turn off any security feature inadvertly, while I experiment trying to access this, and then run into problems in the future.

 

2. The other problem I'm having is trying to network my computers together to transfer data.  I'm working with a wireless network.  When my new computer is walking me through the process, it's asking me for a username and password for my old computer.  I have tried multiple entries, but nothing is recognized.  I have probably forgotten the original username and password....although I didn't think so....but is there a way to circumvent this?  If I use a cable instead of the wireless, would I still need to know the username/password of the old computer?  I'm just trying to transfer some word documents and pictures.  I'd appreciate any help on this too.

 

Thanks so much.