I have seen a few similar problems in these forums but not mine exactly. I have a home network with a desktop PC running XP Pro, a laptop running XP Home and another laptop running MCE.Under My Network Places, XP Pro can see itself, and the two laptops and I can access the shared files instantly. XP Home can see itself and XP Pro, but not MCE, and likewise, MCE can see itself and XP Pro, but XP Home. If I go to View Workgroup Computers, all 3 appear in the list no matter which computer I'm on, but if I click on say MCE it literally takes about 3 minutes to appear. Then the shared files are instantly accessable but it takes another 3 minutes to close. This is the same from either laptop, and only marginally faster from the desktop. The Desktop is cabled connected to a wireless modem/router and the laptops are wireless, all using Windows to manage the connection.Why don't all 3 machines appear on each machine and why is the connection so slow via "View Workgroup Computers"?1 person got this answerI do too

Method 1 - I'm using AVG 2011 (Free) on all machines. I completely removed it from one machine as suggested (XP Home) and there was no difference.Method 2 didn't work for me either although Rob has marked it as an answer. After following your instructions on all 3 machines, there is no change ie the two laptops (Windows MCE and XP Home) can't see each other in My Network Places. XP Home can't even see itself. The only thing that appears is the Shared Docs folder with Computer shown as "Unknown". If I try to open Shared docs it says it is not accessible, don't have permission, and the network path was not found.

Hi<!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]-->Do not assume anything check!In any case, at this point I would suggest that you will undo all the sharing, and reconfigure everything using Simple Sharing (Win XP Home needs simple sharing).Try to do whatever you can do mannerly and let the wizards rest.http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm Jack - Microsoft MVP, Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET