Re: No network after upgrading WinME to WinXP

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On Sun, 1 May 2005 20:20:06 -0700, HeatherMichelle
<HeatherMichelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have a HP desktop and a HP laptop. I bought a Netgear router, PCI card for
>the desktop and a wireless card for the laptop. When I first set up my
>little network, everything was fine. I could print from the laptop to the
>printer installed on my desktop and could access files on each computer from
>the other. At that time, I did not run Windows Network Setup Wizard. THe
>laptop has always been WinXP but the desktop was ME when I set up the network
>and then I upgraded to XP. When I couldn't access my network after the
>upgrade, I used the Network Setup Wizard. That did not help. I tried HP
>Online Help which didn't help and I have read a lot of the posts on this
>group. I have tried so many things, can someone please help? I have
>activated the guest account with no password, I have disabled the firewall (I
>think). I just don't know what to do. I even went to the website with the
>troubleshooter that has been referenced in so many of the posts.

Any luck? I have sorta the same problem: I had 2 XPs and a 98 on my
network, all ok. I upgraded the Win98 to XP and now the 2 original XPs
can't see the new one, but the new one can see and share everybody
else. One more funny thing: it won't connect to activate windows.
Surfs the web fine, tho.
.



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