Why can't my Windows 7 machine see my MacBook Air?

I have a Windows 7 desktop  and a MacBook Air. In the wireless network we have. I've set everything up so it should see each other. Windows 7 is new for us - we had it working before with XP... We have an XP laptop, a Windows 7 desktop and a MacBook air. XP and Windows 7 see each other and MacBook Air sees Win 7. But Win 7 doesn't see my MacBook Air... I saw a solution to take Win 7 off the homegroup - but I had already disabled homegroup because I read several problems with it. So that didn't solve my problem... HELP

With those symptoms, I'd try the following document:
Apple software on Windows: May see performance issues and blank iTunes Store
(If there's a SpeedBit LSP showing up in Autoruns, it's usually best to just uninstall your SpeedBit Video Accelerator.)

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