To get Vista to play on a XP home network change the Vista PC's workgroup name to match that of your XP network (or vice versa). Reboot all machines for which changes are made.

• Command-line Reference

To have the Vista Network map display correctly install the Link-Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder component on your XP machines.

Difficulties encountered were

• Changing the Hosts file, and here

NTSF size limits

• maximum file name: 260 characters
• maximum files per volume: 4,294,967,295 (2³² files minus 1 file)

Create a folder, eg named "thankscnet.{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}"
Here's the list of strings:^[1]

{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
{62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0}
{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}
{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}