The AnchorFree adapter is probably for some free VPN you or someone else installed. It
may be an issue. It could have also been installed by malware/Adware.
To remove this adapter try the following:
Go to the Windows start orb and in search begin to type:
device manager.
In Device Manger look under Network adapters. Now find an adapter that says something about "AnchorFree" if you can. Right click the adapter and uninstall. If you don't see it or not sure what to uninstall, post a screenshot of your network adapters as shown in Device Manager. Or you could try RevoUninstaller and just remove the software it's using. Sometimes Revouninstaller doesn't show everything, in this case use the traditional Windows add/remove method in the Control Panel to uninstall the software if available. RevoUninstaller would be more preferable since it allows you to
help get rid of all traces of the program. Just be sure you don't delete registry keys or components not related to the program if you do use RevoUninstaller. Make sure RevoUninstaller creates a system restore point first.
The
Teredo (Press the speaker icon) and Microsoft ISATAP adapters you leave alone. Those are core Windows adapters. The Teredo adapter is for IPv4 to IPv6 domain name resolution in case you don't have IPv6 capability (and I strongly urge against having an IPv6 address unless you have a router with NAT64 capability...). The ISATAP adapter is probably for the built-in Windows VPN. Largely used in a corporate/business environment. May also be used for RDP (Remote Desktop). Not entirely sure. But I do know both of those adapters are core Windows adapters. The AnchorFree adapter is not.
Come to think of it. Do post a screenshot of your network adapters from the control panel. I'd like to see what you have going on here. This time in search type:
Network and Sharing Center and to the left column go to
Change adapter settings. Post a screenshot.
Usually, if you want to connect one PC to another with an Ethernet cable, that cable needs to be a crossover cable and you'd then have to right click your network adapter and share it. It's called ICS (Internet Connection Sharing).
Now, in lieu of a needed crossover cable for direct PC to PC networking, newer network adapters have a feature called Auto-MDIX (Medium-Dependent Interface, or auto crossover). So a cross over cable is not needed. Since you indicated your laptop is running XP, that laptop may not have a newer network adapter capable of Auto-MDIX. In which case a crossover cable or crossover adapter will have to be used. A newer USB network adapter
might fix that as well...
Have a look at the pictures and diagram in
this listing.
Refer to this document on connecting two computers together:
Directly connecting computers and sharing files
Back in my XP days, my desktop's Ethernet connection got messed up. So, I made a one foot long crossover cable and connected that to some female-female Ethernet connectors and a longer Ethernet cable run between my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop and my desktop and used ICS to share bother adapters. The laptop got its Internet via WiFI and I was then able to access the Internet on my desktop through my laptop. I gamed with this setup for a very long time until I got the motivation to fix the damn Ethernet cable for my desktop. LOL I also ran Battlefield 2142 on both the laptop and the desktop in a game. So the laptop was on the enemy side and my desktop was on the good side. That way I could see what the enemy was up to while I
"pwned" all the players on my desktop. LOL
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Anyway...
