How do I remove network references from my old Laptop??!!

[jparizek]

I have a wireless Lan at home which used to consist of 2 laptops and a
desktop. I never "mapped" the drives, just accessed shared folders
among the 3 computers. After a time, I sold one of the laptops to a
friend and tried to remove the network references. The problem came up
when she needed to add new software and the computer came up with an
error "unable to locate \\desktop\shareddocs\my pictures\..." where
desktop was the name of the computer in my Lan that acts as the printer
server. I assume that the code that wants to find this old connection
is buried somewhere deep in the Windows files and I can't find it. Any
ideas on what I can do to resolve?

 

[Barb Bowman]

there is probably all kinds of personal info still stored on this
computer. friend or not, use either the recovery partition or
recovery media (or windows installable media) to return the laptop
to its new, out of the box condition.

I have a wireless Lan at home which used to consist of 2 laptops and a
desktop. I never "mapped" the drives, just accessed shared folders
among the 3 computers. After a time, I sold one of the laptops to a
friend and tried to remove the network references. The problem came up
when she needed to add new software and the computer came up with an
error "unable to locate \\desktop\shareddocs\my pictures\..." where
desktop was the name of the computer in my Lan that acts as the printer
server. I assume that the code that wants to find this old connection
is buried somewhere deep in the Windows files and I can't find it. Any
ideas on what I can do to resolve?

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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/