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Searched for this answer on the site, but it looked to be only applicable for mac OSX. If there is one that I missed, please link, and I'll vote to close.
In a nutshell I have a laptop running windows vista, which is currently connected to the internet via the wireless network that exists in the house, using the wireless adapter that came preinstalled. However when I plug in the network cable to connect to the local switch that allows me to connect to my local file server, the laptop doesn't seem to know which way to go to get to the internet. How can I tell it to always take a particular adapter to get to the internet?
EDIT: If instructions aren't the same, knowing how to do this via windows 7 will be handy since I'll be upgrading to it in a few weeks.
1Your question seems to be quite confusing. Are you saying that whenever you connect to another computer on the networks (for file sharing perhaps) that the internet doesn't work after, or are you saying that you would like to use a different computer to connect to your laptop to use the internet on the laptop? I'll be able to provide an answer after clearing this. Thanks – Sandeep Bansal – 2011-08-28T23:57:14.233
Revised question with more detail as to what is going on. – canadiancreed – 2011-08-29T00:46:35.470
Can you please include the hardware that you are using and how you are connecting it all, maybe a labelled diagram could help – Sandeep Bansal – 2011-08-29T00:59:33.390