Windows 10: Home network discovery not working after latest W10 Update

Always good to have a boot CD that doesn't involve your main OS then you can delete anything. I have win PE diagnostic disks but a Linux bootable CD does the trick as well.

Ooops, sorry I used the dreaded word beginning with 'L'!!

 

Same here. These issues are driving me mad at work (with my 2 pcs and a small network). Sometimes it pseudoworks, then it all stop working altogether with no apparent reason (1 pc isn't even displaying itself under network).

 

I am wondering whether it would be useful or not to enumerate NIC brand of affected pcs.

In my case, I have two pcs (one newer i7 and an older AMD Phenom 1)

i7 has got two ethernet cards but I am currently using one. This is the master pc and it usually work fine 100% of the time. I think the NIC card is Realtek, but not 100% sure.

The AMD Phenom it's the offending one. It fails almost 99% of the time since I upgraded it to w10 (from w7). It has a nasty nForce chipset and the NIC card is also a not-so-good imho nVidia nForce network controller.

What are your nic cards in the pcs that are having these issues?. Those can be configured too. I remember to have changed a setting called "Priority and VLAN" to disabled on both NIC cards and the network was visible and working again, but it didn't last too much. After a few minutes (or after a reboot) it started failing again. *Mad

Any ideas on these type of parameters. Some of them seem very obscure.

I will try tinkering with Windows firewall tomorrow.

 

FWIW, mine's a Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller.

My main comp still has the 1231 error with the net view command. Other comps don't.

It is a mystery, though, why only some are affected. I have five win 10 586 comps and they all suffer symptoms. But, as we all know, it is a bit of a moving feast.

I think MS must know what is going, after all, it only started with 586, so why it can't be fixed more quickly is a mystery.

 

Thanks. I am pretty sure a patch will be released shortly (hopefully). And yes, my Realtek NIC is PCIe GBE Family Controller.

 

I'm down to only one problem that I am AWARE OF since I found a link indicating how to get Windows to delete the Windows.old with the Point64.sys file. Pretty straight forward - remove the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0 and install a different one. In my case I just used an old Logitech wireless mouse. Like magic W10 installed the driver for the Logitech mouse and the delete old version of Windows worked as advertised. Strange, but the other system I was having problems deleting Windows.old also had an Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0 installed! But that system has other issues too. Seems strange that the Win Update to Version 1511 would have problems with a Microsoft Mouse - but then...

 

Just tried the 586 again. Downloaded a fresh iso yesterday and updated the 240. Same problem as before, my NAS and my Mac are not visible but reachable. However, lots of different error messages each time before, eventually, I can get to them. My Win 7's are visible, one reachable and one not. "net view" gives the 1231 error.
Restoring my 240 image as I type this

 

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I had also had a networking issue after the 1511 update but solved it by using the Incoming Connections troubleshooter:

1/ Open Control Panel and type Troubleshooting in the search box;
2/ Select View All on the left of the screen;
3/ Run Incomming Connections and select Share Files or Folders and follow the instructions.

This worked for me *Smile

Regards

 

Thanks. I will try that when I am able. It's our Constitution festivities day here.

 

Check out what worked for me here, message #21: Do I really need a homegroup?.

 

Un (#$%^ing) believable. My problem computer (the only one of seven that has the discovery problem) worked for a few days after installing the KB3122947 update on 12/5/15 (I think that was the one anyway). Today (12/9/15) MS installed a bunch of updates and now the problem computer is invisible again on the network!!!

 

Have you tried everything in the previous post?