Remove renamed computer on wireless home network

I have (had?) two computers with similar names on my wireless network.
The home is using XP & this one is the Vista Home premium which I
renamed.

How do I remove the old name from the network? Since having the old
name still there doesn't solve the problem.

Thanks for any help.
-Gordon-


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Hi
If there are icons and links that can be removed, delete them.
Unmap every drive that uses a wrong computer name.
If any thing stays, be patient it would disappear after few days, and few
reboots.
'Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

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> I have (had?) two computers with similar names on my wireless network.
> The home is using XP & this one is the Vista Home premium which I
> renamed.
>
> How do I remove the old name from the network? Since having the old
> name still there doesn't solve the problem.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> -Gordon-
>
>
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Jack,

I have a similiar problem, two vista home premium laptops and one xp sp2
desktop. I didn't like the names of the two vista pc's and have since
changed their names. I now have icons under the networking folder (in Vista)
for both the old and new name. I have no mapped drives and it has been more
than a few days and reboots.

Where are the "references" stored so that I may delete them manually and
explicitly
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"Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:

> Hi
> If there are icons and links that can be removed, delete them.
> Unmap every drive that uses a wrong computer name.
> If any thing stays, be patient it would disappear after few days, and few
> reboots.
> 'Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)
>
> "Altereagle" <Altereagle.3dwcfc@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > I have (had?) two computers with similar names on my wireless network.
> > The home is using XP & this one is the Vista Home premium which I
> > renamed.
> >
> > How do I remove the old name from the network? Since having the old
> > name still there doesn't solve the problem.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> > -Gordon-
> >
> >
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What worked for me was clearing the DNS cache. Open the command prompt
in administrator mode and type "ipconfig /flushdns".


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