I am suffering from what appears to be a fairly common symptom. I have 2 XP
Home PCs connected back to back via crossover ethernet connection. One is
sharing its cable internet connection and printer, both have file shares
mapped. All this is working ok. My problem is that after a time (I havent
measured exactly how long) the second computer disappears from the "view
workgroup computers" list - without affecting internet/file/printer sharing
adversely!!

Reading other users posts I tried to download the browstat utility to aide
diagnosis but cannot locate it on microsoft.com. The download I got was
called -
WindowsXP-KB838079-SupportTools-ENU.exe

which said it would contain browstat.exe along with many others but it is
not present after running the selfextracting cab. If it has been replaced or
I am simply getting the wrong download please advise where to get
browstat.exe.

Thanks,
Rod