Control Panel - View Network connections

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I use a network with a laptop running WIN98SE through ethernet connection
directly to a desktop running WIN XP Home.

Periodically they wouldn't communicate and it always seemed to be the
problem of the laptop.

Sometimes I could go through the Control Panel, select the icon that
represented the LAN and then do a "Repair" function.

Also if you have installed a firewall on either machine this could cause a
problem in that one unit might not be recognized.

Sometimes I have found on a WIN 98 machine that I have had to delete and
reinstall software for the feature to work.

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Joe
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"Nick1966" <nickbradbury@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have set up a small office network using XP and everything worked OK but
> for no reason, or not one I can think of, the network is no longer
available
> to one PC on the workgroup. When I click "View Network Connections" in
> Control Panel to view the IP settings it will not open, I am not too
> familiar with network settings but are the two related and how can I
restore
> the Control Panel item "View Network Connections".
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick
>
>