How do you uninstall a network?

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 03/30/04


Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:13:17 -0800

It sounds like you are all set and your computers are set
up in a workgroup called workgroup. Don't worry about
the mshome workgroup, you'll never have to look in that.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>I have a d-link router installed for sharing internet
between tower and
>laptop. Some friends came over and said I should have a
real network and
>they proceeded to set one up. They did something on the
tower, and
>something on the laptop. Of course, it didn't work.
>Now, under my network places, entire network, Microsoft
windows networks, it
>shows two networks (I'm working on the laptop now), one
says mshome and the
>other says Workgroup. If I click on the one that says
Mshome, the system
>hangs. When I click on Workgroup, a drop down menu
comes up with my laptop
>c drive on it, shard docs, printers and faxes, and
scheduled tasks.
>
>I want to start over with the local network thing, but
don't want to tangle
>up things any worse then they are now. I'm new to all
this. I figure the
>best bet would be to uninstall whatever has been done on
the tower and the
>laptop and then start over using the wizards.
>
>Which one should the network be created on? Should you
set it up on the
>towered first, and then the laptop, or vice versa, or
doesn't it matter?
>
>How do I erase the networking stuff that's been done
without loosing my
>internet sharing which is working perfectly, finally,
via wifi or cat 5?
>
>TIA
>
>Aart
>
>
>.
>



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