how to delete a phantom computer from a peer to peer network

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Dear All,
I have a XP pro peer to peer network at home. My son came home from
school and was playing with his laptop deleting files. Clever chap
deleted the operating system didn't he! Oh well started a clean install.
All went well. Told the system about the network it was due to join, and
then joined it. Went to share folders and was asked to run the network
connection wizard, so I did. I put in the name of the workgroup, but
jolly old windows renamed it to MSHOME just before I hit the OK key.
This set up the computer in its own little private ptp network of its
own. So using the system icon in control panel I set the computer to
join the home workgroup gain which it did.

I now have two icons for one computer in the view network computers
folder. One works (you can click it and it opens) the other doesn't. How
do you delete the one that doesn't work, and the redundant MSHOME
workgroup icon.

Please advise
 
Alex McFarlane said:
Dear All,
I have a XP pro peer to peer network at home. My son came home from school
and was playing with his laptop deleting files. Clever chap deleted the
operating system didn't he! Oh well started a clean install. All went
well. Told the system about the network it was due to join, and then
joined it. Went to share folders and was asked to run the network
connection wizard, so I did. I put in the name of the workgroup, but jolly
old windows renamed it to MSHOME just before I hit the OK key. This set up
the computer in its own little private ptp network of its own. So using
the system icon in control panel I set the computer to join the home
workgroup gain which it did.

I now have two icons for one computer in the view network computers
folder. One works (you can click it and it opens) the other doesn't. How
do you delete the one that doesn't work, and the redundant MSHOME
workgroup icon.

Please advise
Click to expand...

IIRC there is no way to remove such a redundant entry, but it will
eventually dissapear

rgds
Roberto
 
Alex McFarlane said:
Dear All,
I have a XP pro peer to peer network at home. My son came home from
school and was playing with his laptop deleting files. Clever chap
deleted the operating system didn't he! Oh well started a clean install.
All went well. Told the system about the network it was due to join, and
then joined it. Went to share folders and was asked to run the network
connection wizard, so I did. I put in the name of the workgroup, but
jolly old windows renamed it to MSHOME just before I hit the OK key.
This set up the computer in its own little private ptp network of its
own. So using the system icon in control panel I set the computer to
join the home workgroup gain which it did.

I now have two icons for one computer in the view network computers
folder. One works (you can click it and it opens) the other doesn't. How
do you delete the one that doesn't work, and the redundant MSHOME
workgroup icon.

Please advise
Click to expand...

it should disappear on its own (sometimes takes awhile..and a few reboots
:>)

nothing to worry about :>
 
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