can you be more clear and tell us what exactly is the issue..Regards, h9ck3r.

I have a Windows XP desktop - wired to my Motorola router/modem from AT$T for a while. I been able to run a Vista Desktop and a Windows 7 Premium Home with no problem. I got the A V Guardonline spam ware. I was able to clean it up using Combo Fix and Malware Byte. After Combo Fix - at first I didn't an Internet connection. I had to go off. When I came back decided to check the Internet before I deleted the network driver. However, it turns out the Internet fine and I can still see and access my Vista computer on the network. However now the Windows XP Peer to Peer network doesn't see my Windows 7 laptop. The laptop and see the network and connect. However it can only see the vista desktop and not the Windows XP and even though it connects it says no Internet access. In network and sharing it shows unidentified network public. I think this should be set to HOME. How can I do this? I have Windows 7 Premium so I can't use secpol.msc. What to do? I have turned off all feature or services with the Home Group. My IP address is 169.254.141.68. I know that means I not getting a valid IP address. Both my XP and Vista have Internet connection. The router is connected by wire to the XP Computer (main computer). The Vista computer is seen by both the Windows XP and and Windows 7.

okay i will tell you what i didn't get from your question: "I got the A V Guardonline spam ware. I was able to clean it up using Combo Fix and Malware Byte." what did you clean ?? "When I came back decided to check the Internet before I deleted the network driver" can you tell how did you delete the network driver and why you had to delete ??? "However now the Windows XP Peer to Peer network doesn't see my Windows 7 laptop." what is the IP of windows XP and win 7 here ?? "My IP address is 169.254.141.68" Which machine has got this IP now ?? "Both my XP and Vista have Internet connection. The router is connected by wire to the XP Computer (main computer). The Vista computer is seen by both the Windows XP and and Windows 7." Windows 7 premium has internet connectivity ??? Regards, h9ck3r.

I have a Windows XP desktop - wired to my Motorola router/modem from AT$T for a while. I been able to run a Vista Desktop and a Windows 7 Premium Home with no problem. I got the A V Guardonline spam ware. I was able to clean it up using Combo Fix and Malware Byte. After Combo Fix - at first I didn't an Internet connection. I had to go off. When I came back decided to check the Internet before I deleted the network driver. However, it turns out the Internet fine and I can still see and access my Vista computer on the network. However now the Windows XP Peer to Peer network doesn't see my Windows 7 laptop. The laptop and see the network and connect. However it can only see the vista desktop and not the Windows XP and even though it connects no Internet access. What to do?

First of all I got rid of the spamware which was the AV Guard Online. To delete the network driver - I went to device manager and removed it from there. Since then I have updated the driver since my was really out of date. I used the device manager to update the driver. I have a static IP address for The windows XP Desktop which consider my "server" and the DSL modem/Router is attached by cable. The IP address for the Windows XP computer is 74.165.240.77. The gate way is 74.165.240.73 and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.248. The Windows 7 IP address is 169.254.141.68. and there is no default gateway. Subnet mask is 255.255.0.0. No Windows does not have Internet connectivity. And since I updated the driver on my Windows XP the Windows 7 laptop doesn't see any computer on the network. Does this help? I just put in the static IP Address which I had tried before but now I can see all computers on the network. I put the settings in the TC/IP IPV4. Now I have All computers can see each other however The windows 7 laptop still has not Internet access and it IP address now is 74.165.240.74 and it can see the gateway. I can ping the gateway 74.165.240.73. Now it says my network name Alpha and Home Network but Access type says Not Internet Access. I got it fixed. I added the gate way to the DNS setting in the TC/IP IPV4 in the preferred dns server. That works but correct if I wrong when I connect to another wireless outside of my network - I will have to change the TCP/IP settings to obtain automatically. So, I guess this is a temp fix but I still need to fix the actual problem?