Hi, Tried both methods without luck. I am able to get the icon onto the Desktop now my setting a link from the START menu option icon for Network Neighborhood. If I right mouse this and then click "explore" I get a "normal" explorer with the network icon at the left panel. The TWEAK does not offer the network icon in its list of icon options for the desktop. I can't ask Microsoft because this is an OEM installation and my machine is out of guarantee. Regards, PetervanS

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Providing more details about your HomeNetwork might enable readers to understand the exact situation you are finding yourself and hopefully we might be able to suggest other options. Answering some of the following questions, for example, might clarify your setup. 1.How many Computers do you have in your HomeNetwork? 2. What are the Operating Systems of each including the SPs? 3.How have you set up the HomeNetwork? a. Peer to Peer? or b. Host Client type? 4. Please provide the items listed under This connection uses the following items: in your Local Area Connection Properties dialog box. [ To open Local Area Connection Properties , RIGHT-click Local Area Connection>Properties] 5. Is the My Network Places icon missing in all the networked PCs in your LAN or only in one machine? M How to ask a question

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Hi Here are the answers to your questions and I appreciate the help very much. This one has me really baffled. 1. I have four computers hooked to my LAN router. Only two are in the same workgroup. Two PCs are wireless coupled to the router and two are hard-wired. 2. Three PCs use XP PRO and one is W2K. All SPs are installed. 3. The network is a simple PC-router-WAN DSL setup - nothing exotic. I previously used the standard methods to search for and "share" files and folders and printers between two of the PCs. 4. Here is a listing of the connection items: Client for Microsoft Networks File and printer sharing for MS networks QoS Packet Planner Network Monitor driver AEGIS Protocol (IEEE802.1x) v 1.4.0.13 IBM Personal Communications LLC2 driver Internet Protocol TCP/IP That's nothing exotic I think. 5. "Network Places" is missing in the explorer only on one PC, an IBM ThinkPad and this error only started some weeks ago. As I said, the only way I got the icon onto the desktop was by manually doing this from the START menu - click "show on desktop" option for the network icon. If I select the "explore" option on a right-mouse click on the icon I see a "normal" explorer panel with "Network Neighborhood" in the left-hand panel. Thanks for the additional effort here. P

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After exhausting ALL the suggestions from MS KB and other places I stumbled on a WWW site dougknox.com and there I found a script to restore the My Network Places icon/tree. On top of that I was able to fix the clobbered "help" function in XP that quit working with another of his scripts. Amazing. PetervanS

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