Thank you to those who gave me suggestions for the following post. I
thought I would share with you my experience.

See below original post:
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Original Post
I have just installed Windows Vista Optima 32-bit edition on one of my
home computers. The rest are running Windows XP

I have turned off the firewall.
I have turned on network discovery, file sharing, printer sharing,
media sharing.
I have put it on the same peer-to-peer network.

I have also setup shares with "everyone" permissions for
read/write/change.

Still, my Vista machine does not "see" any other computers on my
network.
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I had Vista Ultimate 64 bit on this machine but was having difficulty
with some of my legacy programs. At that time it was networking
wonderfully. I changed to Ultimate 32 to try to get my legacy
programs to work, but it refused to network.

I have now changed back to Vista Ultimate 64. It now networks
perfectly again.

The question is "What does Vista Ultimate 64 have in it that makes it
network just fine, that Vista Ultimate 32 does NOT have it that makes
it not want to network?

I anyone has an answer, I'd appreciate it just in case I need it
again.

Thank you all

There is a KB922120 that tells about Vista network discovery working
differently that XP, and a download for XP machines that is supposed to fix
it.

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>
> Thank you to those who gave me suggestions for the following post. I
> thought I would share with you my experience.
>
> See below original post:
> ________________________
> Original Post
> I have just installed Windows Vista Optima 32-bit edition on one of my
> home computers. The rest are running Windows XP
>
> I have turned off the firewall.
> I have turned on network discovery, file sharing, printer sharing,
> media sharing.
> I have put it on the same peer-to-peer network.
>
> I have also setup shares with "everyone" permissions for
> read/write/change.
>
> Still, my Vista machine does not "see" any other computers on my
> network.
> ____________________________
>
> I had Vista Ultimate 64 bit on this machine but was having difficulty
> with some of my legacy programs. At that time it was networking
> wonderfully. I changed to Ultimate 32 to try to get my legacy
> programs to work, but it refused to network.
>
> I have now changed back to Vista Ultimate 64. It now networks
> perfectly again.
>
> The question is "What does Vista Ultimate 64 have in it that makes it
> network just fine, that Vista Ultimate 32 does NOT have it that makes
> it not want to network?
>
> I anyone has an answer, I'd appreciate it just in case I need it
> again.
>
> Thank you all
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