Missing Network Settings - "Find Devices and Content"

I'm experiencing the same problem. Haven't resolved it on my computer yet. Win 8.1, not in Homegroup, not in Domain, etc. etc., like most of you, not running Hyper-V (though it is a possibility and is installed, I frankly have no idea what the heck it IS much less how to START or USE it), but also, ...

I have no "NwCategoryWizard" entry in the registry anywhere. It's not a key or a value or anything else. The sub-folder under *HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Network* is a folder named Location Awareness. This folder has only the default-key in it, with no value set. A full search of the registry for the string "NwCategoryWizard" finds nothing.

Harrumph.

I'm interested in finding a resolution to this problem (lacking the "Find Devices and Content" slider, and all the associated corruptions which its absence implies) simply to TURN ON MY DANG BLUETOOTH ANTENNA.

I had hoped maybe I could click my way through THIS solution as a step toward THAT solution. But I'm getting nowhere. The computer is still under warranty at HP, but the only service they've offered is that they'll let me ship it to them so that they can restore to factory-condition settings etc., which might as well be an admission that "we have no bleeping idea, and neither does Microsoft."

Keep this thread going, maybe someone will find a solution?

You are amazing, i spent a couple hours messing with registry, deleting anti virus and running command prompts.  For some reason every network i join defaults to public so all those fixes were undone as soon as i joined the network again.  This fix took about 6 seconds and worked perfectly!!!!

try going to network and sharing, then go to homegroup, then go to troubleshoot, skip if it says that some may be network problems then wait click i'm trying to join a homegroup then just mess around with that hope this helped :D

I had this same problem and searched forever for a fix to no avail. Eventually I created a new local user and surprisingly the option did appear for my new temporary user. This got me looking through the registry under my local user keys and I think I found the fix:

1. Open registry editor
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Network\NwCategoryWizard
3. Changed the "Show" key from 0 to 1

This worked for me, but in briefly looking at a couple other machines they didn't all seem to have this same key (but those also didn't have my problem). Anyways, maybe this will fix it for some folks, or at least get people closer to a fix for their issue.

Good luck!