Help-Home Network Disappeared

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"clc" <clc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:75058621-ED0A-4F0C-8ED5-889C88BB2A07@microsoft.com...
> Hello. I got a new laptop and added it to my home network and everything
> was
> fine. I brought my laptop to work today and my coworker went online on
> our
> wifi network there. He did say something about adding my computer to the
> work network, but said it wouldn't affect my home network.Tonight when I
> got
> home I found that my home network had disappeared. The only computer
> shown
> when I click on to view computers in my workgroup is my new computer. My
> desktop is gone. When I first go to My Network Places I see icons for
> shared folders on other computers on my work network. When I check to
> see
> what printers I have, I see my network printer and a work printer listed
> (I
> never installed this printer), but I cannot print with my network printer
> because my printer is gone. Any idea what happened? And how do I fix it?
> Thanks.

It sounds like he put it into the domain at work and you are now logged
in to the work domain using cached credentials.

Log out.

Log in again but make sure the domain entry in the logon window is
the name of your computer and not the domain at work.