I know this has probably been covered previously but I haven't fixed my problem yet.
On my original setup the Desktop PC (Windows 7) talks to the old Laptop (Windows XP) perfectly OK.
I've just bought a new laptop with Windows 7, configured the Network to MSHOME (same as on existing...
Can't get my Windows 7 computer to see my XP computers on home network. XP computers can see W7 'puter but can't access it (under impression W7 only shares with other computers running W7) but that's OK cause I need to get files off old computers not from the new one. Thank goodness for flash...
I just did a clean install of 7 (bought a new drive, installed XP Pro, installed Win 7 Pro). It went great. I was able to log on to the Internet fine. I went to bed and when I tried to get on the Internet - no joy. Checked my settings, they looked OK. Checked the adapter, it was OK as well. Ran...
I was able to see the workgroup MSHOME computers for 5 minutes. After I rebooted the computer, I couldn't see any of them. However, \\ip_address\ or \\ip_address\share_name works. Network discovery on the network is slow (on the Windows 7 computer)...it takes 45 seconds to detect all the...
I have two computers at home on a wireless network - a Laptop on XP, and My Desktop which was on XP but is now running Windows 7.
I had a simple network for file sharing working fine - they are both on the MSHOME workgroup. Upon installing Windows 7 on my desktop, I added it to the MSHOME...