My Network Places, Doesn't Update Properly!

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HTFiddler

This is one of those things that bugs ya for years, but it's never
important enough to ask about, but finally decided to see if anyone
knows what the heck is going on. As I plug and unplug machines from
my router, connect to WiFi here and there, and share and unshare
folders, I notice that My Network Places seems to get all kinds of
widowed junk hangin' 'round ... Computer Names that have long since
been disconnected and folders that have long since been unshared.

The easy fudge is to just reboot, or ipconfig /release-/renew, or
delete the unwanted shares, etc. I check all the machines and find
the Computer Browser is started. The Server is started. So I don't
understand why this is going on in the first place.

Does everyone have this problem and just fudge around it, or is there
some hidden checkbox or registry setting somewhere that I need to
change? I've searched the archives and can't find the answer. Any
insights greatly appreciated. Thanks!

--HTF
 
Yeah, I have the same problem but since I got used to deleting what's junk so
I didn't consider it as much as a problem, but if there's a solution it would
be great.
 
That is the way the Browser Service and the Browse List works, the
Master Browser cannot be "forced" to rebuild the browse list. Browser
announcements are only done every 12 minutes or so, it takes 3
consecutive announcements before disconnected computers are removed from
the list, it can take almost an hour before this happens. Stopping and
restarting the Browser Service (NET STOP/NET START command) on the
computer that has the Master Browser duties will force all computers to
"re-announce" themselves and the Browse List will be rebuilt.

John
 
Stopping and
restarting the Browser Service (NET STOP/NET START command) on the
computer that has the Master Browser duties will force all computers to
"re-announce" themselves
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Thanks! Very helpful!

But how does one know which computer has "the Master Browser duties"
on a 2 computer home peer to peer net?

HTF
 
HTFiddler said:
Thanks! Very helpful!

But how does one know which computer has "the Master Browser duties"
on a 2 computer home peer to peer net?
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters\

IsDomainMaster

True - Is the master browser
False - Is not the master browser
Auto: Resolve through browser elections (default)

The values can also be Yes, No, Auto or 0, 1, Auto.

Auto means that there will be a "Browser Election", but I prefer to call
it a "Browser War". If there is no natural "pecking order" you will get
constant elections, you will see that recorded in the Event Log. A
pecking order will exist when computers are from different NT vintage or
different Windows families, the PDC or Domain controller will always win
the election over any other, XP Pro will win over Windows 2000, Windows
2000 will win over NT4 and so on. If both computers are XP Pro, or
Windows 2000 etc, then they will constantly wage a "war" over this, best
to set one computer to "True" and the other to "False".

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/support/chptr3.mspx?mfr=true

John
 
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