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I have just installed a new BT Home hub 2 after using the old BT Home hub for some time with no difficulty and no problems. I have two laptops and two desktop machines. One of the desktops uses vista; the other machines run XP. All communicated through a local workgroup.
Having installed the new homehub2, I now find that I can see the machines across some of machines but I cannot access their contents. One of the laptops simply does not see the network. All are connected to the internet and work independently. I have tried everything I can think of to get the local network going but have run out of ideas. The only thing left I can think of is to completely reinstall windows but this is a bit drastic and wonder if anyone out there has some other thoughts.
XP - Open a command prompt (Start, programs, accessories, command prompt)
Vista - open an administrator command prompt (start, programs, accessories, right click on command prompt, click on Run as administrator)
netsh int reset all
netsh winsock reset
reboot the computer and then see if it can connect.
Thank you very much for this reply. I would never have guessed this solution in a month of Sundays. It enabled me to connect my two XP machines in one direction so that from one I could transfer to the other all the files I needed to back everything up. I might do a clean reinstall of XP now on the machine that refuses to receive files. It is a few years old and probably will benefit from the 'deep clean'. Hopefully it will simply connect then
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