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Laptop will not try to see workgroup

I have a workgroup in a small office.  One desktop is running Win 7 32 Bit, One is running Win 7 64 bit and the laptop is running Win XP.   All three are in the same workgroup.   The two running Win 7 see each other, but the laptop refuses to see the others.  When I go to My Network Places and click on "view all computers in this workgroup., it quickly beeps and will not even try.   I went through the network wizard and put the workgroup in, but it still will not try, it beeps once quickly and that is it.   Any ideas what I can do to make the laptop search and find the other two computers?
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Windows firewall?
what happens if you try to PING the two Win7 machines from the XP machine, and then view the ARP cache (after ping open Command Prompt and type arp -a)? does the other two machines' IP addresses show up?
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I will be talking to this customer in a couple days.   I will try goldsix suggestion
I did as golsix suggested and it seemed to have worked.  Thanks
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