Removing Redundant Network details

[Guest]

I'm running a wired home network. PC's come and go and names change. When
viewing workgroup computers, these old PC's/names are still showing and
obviously when tryinh to access and error occurs. How do you remove items
that are no longer avialable on the network ???

Tom

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Browsing is not, and is not intended to be, a perfect representation of
current network resources. There are built-in latencies, and these are
aggravated by network traffic, frequent shutdowns, adding/removing machines,
etc. Your stale entries will eventually disappear. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;188001

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Guest]

Doug,

Thnaks for reply and link. How long does it take for entries to dissappear
?? Some of the invalid entries (appear to) have been around for months

Tom

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Hmmmm. Expected behavior would be minutes or hours - not months. Try
turning off the automatic search feature:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320138

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Guest]

Doug,

Thanks for yoor help on this

Tom

Hmmmm. Expected behavior would be minutes or hours - not months. Try
turning off the automatic search feature:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320138

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP