Vista my network places icon

The original thread starter may use the Report button to request it be reopened but anyone else with a similar issue should start a New Thread. Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Joined Feb 14, Messages My Network Places on the other three show all the shared resources on all 4 computers. Here are the problem withthe Dell 1. My Network Places does not even show on the Start list it does show in the list under My Computer on the other 3.

When I click on View Workgroup Computers on the , nothing happens. I get a quick hourglass and then it stops. I have run the wizard for Installing a home network and making a new connection, but nothing changes. If I try and access the shared resopurses of the from the other computers, some of them work and some of them do not. My Shared Folders results in a error message saying I do not have authorization to access that resource. I am the administrator of my own network.

Any help will be appreciated. Joined Jan 28, Messages 6, Two things to look at: Can you ping the from the other pc's? A failure to ping is generally a firewall issue. Also,just as a brain check,check the following. Click Apply. Sometimes,when I start with the small details,folks say they know that already and sometimes I should include the basics.

All of these services should be started, and their startup type should be automatic or perhaps manual. If a service is not running, open it's properties and check the dependencies. Check each of the dependencies and see which one is preventing the service from running. Checking the event log is also a good idea here, there may be clues to what is failing. Here is a pretty complete tutorial on pinging. This will be from the And,were you able to add Network Places following the above instructions?

From a Johnwill post on the Networking Forum Try these simple tests. Paste the results in a message here. If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here. Still, there will be some users who, when connected to a Home network, might not want these folders shared out at all.

To disable sharing of the Public folders you will need to make the change in the Network and Sharing Center. The easiest way to access the Network and Sharing Center is to do the following:. Click the down arrow to the right of Public folder sharing and you will see the following three options available to you:- Turn on Sharing so anyone with network access can open files — Turn on Sharing so anyone with network access can open, change and create files — Turn off sharing people logged in to this computer can still access this folder.

Check the radio button for Turn off sharing. Click Continue. Wait a moment for Vista to make the changes, and your Public folders should no longer be shared on the network. Default Public Folders and sub-folders The Network status icon in the system tray is the quickest way to access the Network and Sharing Center Use the Network and Sharing Center to choose Public folder sharing options.

This setting changes based on whether computers and devices as well as shared files and folders on the network are visible from your computer system. There are two Network Discovery settings: on and off.

Here is how you turn on Network Discovery:. One issue those running XP and Vista systems on the same network might have is being unable to see the computers running Vista from the XP computers.

If this happens, the first thing to check is the workgroup name that is being used on the XP computer and make sure the same workgroup name being used on the Vista computers. Here is how you check the workgroup name in Windows XP and in Vista:. How many letters are there in the alphabet? When I later discovered its existence I got all excited to figure out how it happened and if it could be done on demand.

It can. This runs a wizard. Instead you should browse there separately and copy the URL to your clipboard. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.

Notify me of new comments via email. Originally, it is not a big problem. Icon bar has disappeared! My Windows 7 Icon bar has disappeared! Archived Forums. Windows 7 User Interface. Hey, I turned my Acer Aspire laptop on, it's working all fine it's just that my Icon Bar has disappeared eg.

Network icon , Battery Icon disappeared Archived Forums. Windows 7 Miscellaneous. In fact, I saw suddenly Wampserver icon suddenly turn into Windows Vista Networking. I just updated my Vista laptop wth Service pack 2. The wireless network icon in my sytem tray has now disappeared. How can I get this back?

My Fax icon disappeared. Where is the Forum For…? My computer crashed and when I started it again, my Fax Icon disappeared. I still have a shortcut on my desktop but when I click on it, it does nothing. I looked in my