Quote Originally Posted by Midknyte View Post
Do NOT use homegroup unless ALL systems are Win7.

Maybe this will help:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...dows-7-and-xp/
I didn't know, and set up the Win 7 laptop with a homegroup, but Vista, of course, does not have that feature (so far as I can tell and from what you have indicated).

I went to the tutorial on how-to geek and that didn't help - most I had tried but rechecked all the settings. Nada.

So, I set up another user on my laptop and named the user account "desktop" and through it I am able to see all the files on the Desktop-PC as well as my user (original login) on the laptop - "starglass". Isn't this like the long way around though? Why can't "starglass" get access to the network??? Maybe this is the way it's supposed to be (although this is not the set up on my daughter's laptop - she can access the Desktop through her original user name/account).

I'm still stumped as to why it was there, and now it is not...?!?