Missing Network Settings - "Find Devices and Content"

Anonymous
2013-11-29T13:30:12+00:00

Windows 8.1 -Under all my various network adapters there is no  "Find Devices and Content" box.

I've tried various fixes. Changing homegroup etc. Nothing work.

Please provide some guidance

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Anonymous
2014-01-11T17:54:45+00:00

I am not sure if everyone is checking at the right place if they are connected to domain network and they have 8.1 because only 8.1 has this option. Windows 8 has a different way to share devices and content.

For chromecast troubleshooting:

https://support.google.com/chromecast/troubleshooter/2995236?hl=en&ref\_topic=3447927#ts=3081637,3249450

Where to find the option to share:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/turn-sharing-on-or-off

I have been using Windows since forever and have used Apple too, so switching to Mac / Apple is not going to help. Its just another OS with the same fundamentals. Go figure it out in a Apple store if you want a demo.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-24T14:15:57+00:00

    Really helpful - the topic title is  Missing Network Settings - "Find Devices and Content"

    yet your answer is to use it. By the way, I clicked "Helpful" ironically.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-02T23:56:00+00:00

    Did you even read the OP before you posted this nonsense?  Were you trying to be an ***hole?

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-02T23:59:06+00:00

    Seriously?!?  Users report that the feature is missing from their system and you tell them it's not?

    Try reading. The feature is missing. We need help making it appear.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-25T19:23:50+00:00

    I was able to make the "Find devices and Content" re-appear by following the this Microsoft article in reverse

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg252535(v=ws.10).aspx

    The article describes how to make that setting disappear for enterprise admins but essentially I had to delete the registry folder 

    "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\NewNetworkWindowOff"  

    The existence of that folder in your registry will block the setting from appearing.   I think one of the many programs I installed put that registry key there. 

    If you don't have the folder "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\NewNetworkWindowOff" you may want to check the second half of that tech article "to turn off the network location Wizard for the current user" and see if you have the registry keys it describes.

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