My Network Places

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Johnny

Whenever I go to a LAN gaming party, everyone shares
folders and they are listed in My Network Places. This is
fine, but if I delete them, they never come back even if I
refresh. I was wondering how I can repopulate the shared
folder list and see what's really on the network. Thank
you!
 
Hi Johnny,

There currently is no way to force it to recreate shares that were detected
on the share and the user explicitly deleted. The reason for this was, if
the user deleted it...they don't want to see it, so we won't keep bringing
it back every time we crawl the network.

In the meantime you can fix it so that it detects the shares that you
manually deleted by doing the following

WARNING! Be careful when using the registry editor. If you do not
understand how to use it or feel comfortable using it, please do not
continue.

Start -> Run -> regedit
Navigate in the tree to: My Computer - >
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Workgr
oupCrawler\Shares
Under this key there will be a key for each share that has been listed in My
Network Places.
Delete the keys of the machines you want it to find again when you open My
Network Places (and those shares are available on the network) and it should
retect them.

In the future, what you want to do is just leave the items in My Network
Places. After 48 hours, if My Network Places does not detect the shares, it
will age them out and they will disappear. If when My Network Places is
opened again down the road (say a week later) and it detects those shares
again it will populate them into My Network Places.

Hope this helps.

Thx,
Nico
US - Windows Core:Ux


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Nico Tomacelli said:
Hi Johnny,

There currently is no way to force it to recreate shares that were detected
on the share and the user explicitly deleted. The reason for this was, if
the user deleted it...they don't want to see it, so we won't keep bringing
it back every time we crawl the network.

In the meantime you can fix it so that it detects the shares that you
manually deleted by doing the following

WARNING! Be careful when using the registry editor. If you do not
understand how to use it or feel comfortable using it, please do not
continue.

Start -> Run -> regedit
Navigate in the tree to: My Computer - >
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Workgr
oupCrawler\Shares
Under this key there will be a key for each share that has been listed in My
Network Places.
Delete the keys of the machines you want it to find again when you open My
Network Places (and those shares are available on the network) and it should
retect them.

In the future, what you want to do is just leave the items in My Network
Places. After 48 hours, if My Network Places does not detect the shares, it
will age them out and they will disappear. If when My Network Places is
opened again down the road (say a week later) and it detects those shares
again it will populate them into My Network Places.

Hope this helps.
Click to expand...

Just FYI, it wasn't under the area you mentioned on my XP Home. It was under
those s-1-5-21 things. Odd.
 
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