Windows 7/XP streaming crashes

[Parleysummit]

I decided to give Win 7 a shot so I set up a dual boot with 7 Professional 64bit on a new partition and my old XP SP3 on another. This is my media computer with all my movies and TV shows that my 4 other XP computers pull from for viewing.

I set up a workgroup, see it fine from the XP computers and can start watching shows on the xp machines but after 8-15 minutes the stream crashes. I boot back into XP on the media computer and stream is fine forever. I"m using Nero 8 for the viewing on the xp computers. Have searched the internet with no solution.

Any ideas?

 

[Parleysummit]

Thought maybe Nero was the problem. Upgraded to Nero 10, same thing happened but in 3 minutes as opposed to 8-15. Bummer. Does this mean I have to put win 7 on all my machines? Think maybe I'll stick to xp if that's the case

 

[acurasd]

Not exactly... May we have the make a model of your Router?

sometimes older routers without a firmware up grade won't work correctly with 7.. this is just one possibility.

Windows 7 is an amazing OS; don't shy away from it just yet.