home network stopped working

[mredavis]

My home network consists of two computers which were communicating with each other until the other day I had to do a system restore and now my computer does not see the other one on the network. Anybody got any ideas as to what happened? I am running windows 7 ultimate(the one I did system restore on) and the other computer is running xp.

 

[Joan Archer]

It's possible that you did the restore back to before you had them connected and you'll have to set them up again. What type of restore did you do, was it a System Restore through the System Tools or was it a System Recovery where you took it back to the way it was when new ?

You haven't filled out your System Specs so we don't know what your set up is or how you originally connected the 2 computers so if you could post back with more details I'm sure the experts will be happy to help you.

 

[mredavis]

home network not working

My system restore went back only a few days. The home network has been working well for over a year now. I had to do the system restore because my .lnk files were all being opened by Word and I could not resolve the problem with the default program option. I should say that this problem (loss of home network) occurred over a year ago and I did not realize at that time that the system restore was responsible for the home network to stop working. So I did a repair install as described in a forum and that solved the problem. It seems then there is a setting that needs changing.
I am running Windows 7 ultimate, using an AMD Phenom 9750 quad-core processor 2.40 GHz, 8 gig RAM, 64 bit OS.