WRT54GS Changeover from Wired to Wireless (Vista): Duck Soup!

I've owned my WRT54GS router for nearly three years and had initially bought it as a wired router (with an option to go secured wireless later), but I'm used to thinking that wireless was primarily for laptops and notebooks (even though I've actually used wireless-enabled desktops before in independent coffeshops).
However, something happened that changed my tune about desktops and wireless.
A friend of the family has been having issuesd with his new Vista Home Basic-powered wireless-enabled desktop (Linksys wireless router and USB adapter combo) and brought the computer and adapter (but not the router) to me for a checkup. Since I was already running Vista on my own computer, and also had a wireless Linksys router (albeit one used strictly as a *wired* router), I figured I'd give the router and adapter a test and see how easy it would be to connect.
Since I left the *wired* connection up so I could get some settings from the router's admin pages, it was depressingly easy to convert this previously wired-only PC to a true secure wireless (WPA no less) desktop, using nothing more than what's included in Vista. Six mouse-clicks (and a copy-and-paste) later, and I was done.
Old (four years old) PC, three year old router, gone secure and wireless (G for now).
Maybe I *should* consider N as an upgrade.
Wireless: it's definitely not (just) for laptops anymore.

You have to change the workgroup in Vista from WORKGROUP to MSHOME and your XPs will appear under network.
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