Solution for Windows PCs not showing up in Finder

Hello guys,
after fiddling around with the networking between Windows and Leopard I just wanted to share my solution with you.
In my home network, there are three computers: One Vista machine, one XP machine and my MacBook. I found out that the Windows PCs only did show up in my finder if the Vista computer was turned on AFTER the MacBook (the XP computer didn't matter). This is apparently has something to do with Vista becoming the "master browser" in the SMB network. So you just have to prevent that this happens.
And here's what you can do about it:
On the Vista computer, go to Start->Run and type 'regedit'. Then browse to 'HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters' and change the Value of 'MaintainServerList' from 'Auto' to 'No'. Then reboot the PC.
Now it shouldn't matter which computer is turned on first or last.
NOTE: It still can take up to 15 minutes until the Windows PC show up in Finder.

Thanks for posting this solution. I have 2 PC's plus BootCamp and this did the trick.

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