Just look at the number of posts here!My Problem: I am on a lan which which mixed Vista/XP machines had no problems. I installed Win 7 on a machine and connected it to the network, after many reboots of the network it finally appeared. Some PC's on the network come on at a specific time to be ready for use. Win 7 can see computers on the network fine, until one get's turned on, which causes Win 7 to lose all the others.It happened just a moment ago. One PC came on and suddenly Win 7 can no longer access the file server.This is not a networking issue because none of the other PC's experience this issue, only the Win 7 machine.Win 7 is a great OS, cleaner and faster than Vista....it's just a damn shame that the networking on it is so poor.Life Is...

That is not new with Windows 7. Starting and stopping machines has always been likely to upset browsing the network, depending on which machine was acting as the browse master. I would try disabling the computer browser service on the Win 7 machine.Bill

Thanks Bill, I'll give that a try.I've noticed that if I leave networked systems alone for 10 minutes all is well again. Unfortunately that doesn't help in the middle of a work day.Much appreciated.Life Is...

That is not new with Windows 7. Starting and stopping machines has always been likely to upset browsing the network, depending on which machine was acting as the browse master. I would try disabling the computer browser service on the Win 7 machine. Bill To add to that, it would also be a good idea to configure an always-on machine (such as that file server) to be a permanent browser master, and all of the other machines to be only browser clients.This article has a quick how-to.HTH,Chris[If this post helps to resolve your issue, please click the "Mark as Answer" or "Helpful" button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.]

Thx Chris,I'm certainly no windows networking guy so that will really help.Life Is...

This key is from NT4 and does not longer work in Windows 2000 an above.THis key ist the right one http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722044(WS.10).aspx(set it to YES )

[If this post helps to resolve your issue, please click the "Mark as Answer" or "Helpful" button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.] Hmmm, I would like to mark Bill's post as the answer to my problem but the 'Mark As Answer' link is not visible to me.Odd!Life Is...