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Takes too long to discover other PC's on network!
Hi Everybody
I have 4 PC's on my wired home network - one of them is running Windows 7 Professional - 64 bit O/S whilst all the others are running on Windows XP Professional 32 bit O/S. All these PC's are on the Work Group called 'Home'
All the partitions of the physical HDD on all these PC's are shared with the exception of the 'C:\' partition of these PC - as I only store programs on the 'C:\' drive partitions of the computers, hence I see no need to share them across the home network.
I have noticed that on all the PC's running XP, the other computers become visible almost instantly in Windows Explorer but on the PC running Windows 7, it takes far too long (sometimes just doesn't even see them) to discover the other PC's on the network. Network Discovery and File Sharing settings have been set to 'on' on this PC running Windows 7.
Its very annoying. Is there anything I am missing here?
Further, how do you search for a PC on a network on Windows 7 as you do on Windows XP from within Explorer? I am able to search for a computer on a network in XP very easily simply by right clicking on Network Places and going on 'Search for Computers' and then type in the name of the PC I am looking for - how do I do the same in Windows 7 Explorer?
Best regards
Deepak