There is a KB922120 that tells about Vista network discovery working
differently that XP, and a download for XP machines that is supposed to fix
it.
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> Thank you to those who gave me suggestions for the following post. I
> thought I would share with you my experience.
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> See below original post:
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> Original Post
> I have just installed Windows Vista Optima 32-bit edition on one of my
> home computers. The rest are running Windows XP
>
> I have turned off the firewall.
> I have turned on network discovery, file sharing, printer sharing,
> media sharing.
> I have put it on the same peer-to-peer network.
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> I have also setup shares with "everyone" permissions for
> read/write/change.
>
> Still, my Vista machine does not "see" any other computers on my
> network.
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> I had Vista Ultimate 64 bit on this machine but was having difficulty
> with some of my legacy programs. At that time it was networking
> wonderfully. I changed to Ultimate 32 to try to get my legacy
> programs to work, but it refused to network.
>
> I have now changed back to Vista Ultimate 64. It now networks
> perfectly again.
>
> The question is "What does Vista Ultimate 64 have in it that makes it
> network just fine, that Vista Ultimate 32 does NOT have it that makes
> it not want to network?
>
> I anyone has an answer, I'd appreciate it just in case I need it
> again.
>
> Thank you all
>