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XP Home probes network

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by richardson Dec 23, 2001 last reply Apr 4, 2002

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XP Home seems to be probing other computers on my corporate network at defined intervals. Why is it trying to "discover" the other PCs on the network and is there a registry hack to stop it. How do I stop it?

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by bhrdwh Dec 25, 2001

It snoops other PCs to update its Database for PC info that it.

by richardson Dec 26, 2001

The answer was incomplete. I think he meant to say more but it's not there.

by gigelul Apr 4, 2002

More detail please. Where you see that.

by richardson Apr 4, 2002

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