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How to Find Out if You Have a Network Card in Your PC & What Type it Is

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Summary: Find out if a computer has a network card by clicking on the device manager feature in Windows Vista or the my computer feature in Windows XP to locate information related to the network adapters. Learn more about network cards and your PC with tips from a software developer in this free video on general computer tips.

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Dave Andrews is a software developer with a business and Web site selling programs and other computer services in Franklin, Tenn. Having worked in the IT industry for more than 8...read more

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"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews, today I'm going to show you how to find out if you have a network card in your PC and what type it is. Let's click on the start button, and we're going to go right click on computer, in the Windows XP it would be, my computer, but just right click on there and go to properties. Now in Windows Vista, we're going to click on device manger, this pulls up a list of the devices that are installed on your computer. What we're concerned with are network cards which would be under network adapters, lets expand the network adapters. As you can see I have several, the first one that's listed is a WLAN, which means it's a wireless network card. This one, the NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller is an Ethernet working card. I can tell because most of your wireless network cards will have WLAN or wireless, or something similar. My name is Dave Andrews, and I've just showed you how to find out if there's a network card in your computer, and what type it is."

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