Ballie said:
Thanks again, I now got my laptop accessing all my HOME pc files and folders but I still cant get my home pc to open files on my lap top could it be because my laptop is 64 bit and my home pc is 32 bit ?

Anyway thats not the end of the world becase this week I am fitting a new 1 tb hard drive to my home pc and when I install win7 I am going to install the 64 bit version anyway. Once done I will let you know if the home then accesses the laptops files.

Did you enable shares on both computers?
You will need to enable sharing on your laptop the same way you did with the desktop

Regards