Re: My Network Places - Not responding

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Silver Fox wrote:

When double click on client PC icon in 'My Network Places' the screen
freezes and I get 'Not responding'. I used to be able to get access, but
suddenly I get this message. My Operating system is XP with SP3. Anybody
got any ideas?

My Network Places tends to be problematic. Try connecting to
\\computername\share instead. I also like to use Search>computers on the
network. When the remote computer comes up, double-click on it to get its
shares. Then right-click/drag to your desktop to make a shortcut to the
share(s) instead of using My Network Places.

As for why this no longer works, I can't guess because you haven't told us
anything about the computers or network involved.

The First Question Of Troubleshooting: If the problem is new, what changed
between the time things worked and the time they didn't?

Malke
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