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I have looked back a long way through the posts as \i am sure that this is not the first time this problem has been encountered but failed to find a post - possibly too old.

I have tried to re-establish file sharing betwwen vBox guest Win XP & host Win Vista SP2 after installation of a new HD.

On bootong VBox, VBoxNetDHCP.exe is prevented from running by Windows there are 3 instances of VBoxNetDHCP.exe installed as I have tried to get the network operational
The problem details are defined in a Windows message box stating that the exe file is not working:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: VBoxNetDHCP.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 5f075e10
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.18327
Fault Module Timestamp: 4cb73436
Exception Offset: 00065bf8
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 2d85
Additional Information 2: 9279b3b0fd1ac3e02e71a35a50ebef76
Additional Information 3: 25fc
Additional Information 4: fdab5a000275909f0b60fcad5870bf00

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When checking the network from Windows Control Panel it states that Host only is enabled.

I have not been able to make any connection between the 2 programmes.

Shared clipboard is operational.

I would like 2 way file sharing but do not need Win XP to access the internet.

Any pointers would be welcome.

It would be helpful to mention VirtualBox version, and whether the Vista host is 32bits or 64bits. AFAIR VirtualBox has not supported Vista hosts since v5.0.0, and 32bit hosts have not been supported since v6.0.0 I think. But you'd know this because the installer would refuse to run.

Appologies for absent info:
Vista is 32bit
VBox version (the highest that will run on Vista 32bit) 5.2.44

My guess is that the problem is not with Windows filesharing, but with your host only network (and its DHCP service).

I would remove the host only network and start again.