Hi, hopefully somebody will be able to help me with my problem. work Whenever I am at work I can log in and do all of my work without a problem. Whenever I log into my profile from home however, none of my desktop icons will show up. This is a problem that has only risen since my job has replaced my Windows Vista latop with a Windows 7 laptop. I'm hoping that perhap it's some sort of security setting on my new laptop. But any help regarding this problem would be greatly appreaciated.

Hi, When you login on the Home profile, can you access the laptop from Desktop machine? To troubleshoot the issue, please perform the following steps. 1. Modify relevant settings on Windows 7 machine. a. Click Start and open Control Panel. b. Open "Network and Sharing Center" and click "Advanced sharing settings". c. Expand the current network profile (such as "Home or Work"), and then select the following options: "Turn on Network Discovery", "Turn on file and printer sharing", "Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write files in the Public folders", "Turn off password protected sharing" 2. Write down the Desktop’s IP address. Click Start button in Windows 7 and type \\IP address on Desktop, and then press enter. Can you access the Desktop from the laptop now? If it works, the issue can be related to DNS. You may check Hosts file. Please refer the following article. Modify the Hosts file In the hosts file, ignore all the lines that start with *, and pay attention to other lines. Please only keep the line "localhost 127.0.0.1", delete others. Otherwise, please move on the next steps. 3. Restart the machine in Safe Mode with Networking and access the network machine again. 4. Assure the following services are started: Computer Browser, Server, Workstation Thanks, Novak