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re: Question about 'Getting Network Neighborhood to recognize newly attached computers'
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 12:39 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by tnt
(1 messages posted)
Thank you Toby. It is almost two years since you posted your fix and I used that
fix successfully today. There are some smart people at Microsoft. Why have they
not yet picked up on this flaw in their system and fixed it on their end?
tnt
On Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 6:46 am, toby wrote:
>Hi. You know this is going to boil down to some completely fricking ridiculous MICROSOFT
>cockup. I had the same problem, and after trying 3,000 different solutions and this
>is the monkey idiot solution what worked for me.
>
>Go to "view network connections"
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>Click on your local network.
>
>Click on properties (you should start at the "general" folder. Stay there or go
there
>if not)
>
>Click the "install" button.
>
>You get the choice of client, service or protocol. Click protocol.
>
>Add yer protocols. NetBios and TCP/IP if they aren't there.
>
>Enjoy the feeling of sharing files, and scream out the Window that MSFT didn't just
>start with these components installed in the first place, since there doesn't seem
>to be any reason NOT to.
>
>&lemme know if this works for you,
>
>cheers,
>
>Toby
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