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windows 98 unable to browse network
I thought other people might find this useful - it stumped me for quite a
while and the solution is so simple. Problem: you have 2-4 computers at home all networked on your linksys router, two xp machines and two windows 98 old ones that you still keep around for some reason. the two xp machines and your dependable voodoo windows 98 machine work great and see each other just fine in the network neighborhood. however your really old HP pavilion computer doesn't see the others in the workgroup for some reason. why is that? ANSWER: you've got Zone alarm installed on your (not connecting) HP computer running windows 98 and you've "disabled" it from startup. Hmm, ok that should just turn it off right? No- WRONG, it's still there and will dutifully stop you from seeing the other computers on the network even though they can see you. When you click on the network icon (from settings) the message "unable to browser network" will constantly be displayed and you'll run in circles for hours not knowing why. RESOLUTION: the best thing is to simply "enable" Zone alarm at startup and magically all the network neighborhood will be back to normal and working and seeing the other computers. How dumb eh? you could also totally uninstall Zone alarm to get the same thing but I had no idea it somehow blocked outgoing connection attempts (even though it was disabled on startup) and windows 98 doesn't really tell you that is happening. It took me a good couple of hours to discover this on another message board but that is exactly what happened. |
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