I have had my new computer running vista ultimate for six months now,
absolutly no problems until now, all of a sudden it has decided that it
cannot see my network, now I know my way round vista a little bit and I found
out that it has switched off the network discovery in the network and sharing
center, the only problem is that it will not under any curcumstances let me
turn it back on again, you click the button to turn on network discovery
click apply and hey presto it just dos'nt do a thing, this also applies to
the public folder sharing, Printer sharing. The password protected sharing
and media sharing buttons work just fine, I tried restoring back over a week,
but to no avail, the computer is connecting to the internet OK and I do have
A 360 gb personnal media harddrive (HP Media center computer) that for some
unknown reason the other computers on the network can access so I can move
files about the network using this drive which makes it abit of a longwinded
affair. If anybody out there has any ideas I would be very grateful, the only
other thing I can think of is reloading windows afresh. regards Don

Make sure you have all your windows updates installed, some times when
there download and not install it stalls the computer. Try disabling the
network card in device manager as it may have something to do with your
network card.


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ISDP