Extra Workgroup wont go away

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From: Joe D'Amico (Joe_at_damicoweb.nospam)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:52:02 -0700

Home Network Topology
2 PCs
Both Windows XP Home
Using Windows Networking
DSL Modem/Router plugged into the down link port of a
Lynksys 5 port hub
1 additional laptop attached to the hub using VPN to work
All wired connections

I recently had a problem where the PCs couldn't see across the workgroup. I
ended up renaming the workgroup from
XXWORKGROUP
to
XXHOME

This seems to have solved my problem but the old workgroup XXWORKGROUP still
shows up in the network neighborhood on both machines but is inaccessible.
The new XXHOME works fine. I have scanned both machines for the XXWORKGROUP
name as both file name and file contains but can not find any file other
than a .log where it is referenced and it is not referenced in the registry
either. Is there anyway to get rid of this extra entry?

Thanks for any help.

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