Windows 10, Version 1809. Network does not show computers

Anonymous
2018-10-19T21:34:40+00:00

In Win10, v 1809 I go to "Network" in file explorer and no computers are showing - neither my computer nor other computers on the network.

I was able to find the ip address of the computer I was searching for and successfully ping it via command prompt.

Any ideas?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-11-08T22:21:28+00:00

    Disabling the trigger did not fix the issue here it is still broken on Windows10 2004

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-09-29T19:29:21+00:00

    None of the concerns in this thread have anything to do with routers. The change was with Microsoft Windows updates and/or Windows 10 annual refreshes.  I'm sure the net discovery will populate those machines but in all reality, we here are not discussing if it might be a router concern mainly because it was and has been established to be a change in windows 10. We'd be best off focusing on windows to get this concern fixed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-09-29T13:31:53+00:00

    Here is an experiment I just tried which yielded a result which I don't understand:

    I had an explorer window open to Network on one of my systems. It was showing all of the computers which were currently running.

    Leaving everything else running, I turned off my router, a Synology RT2600ac. Within seconds, all the computers disappeared from the explorer window, as would be expected.

    I turned the router back on. After it finished re-booting, some of the computers re-appeared in the explorer window, but others did not, even an hour later. Why?

    This could be key to understanding this issue, because it suggests that a brief loss of network connectivity causes some systems to stop Function Discovery Resource Publication, even though services.msc shows it is still running, while other systems continue to operate correctly.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-27T21:23:12+00:00

    @Johnb3030,

    The problem seems to be a timing issue. If the service Starts before the network adapter is actually ready or not, apparently the publication only happens once when the service starts ? 

    That is why restarting FdResPub after the system is up is a workaround that fixes the problem for many users that tried it.  

    I think you are correct that it is a timing issue. One of my systems is a Dell Inspiron 11-3167 Tablet, which is extremely slow. I never should have bought it! Anyway, the FdResPub restart is not working reliably, and I think it is because it needs to be delayed until the system has gotten farther along in the boot-up process.

    Windows Task Scheduler has two settings that I need to explore:

    1.  On the General tab, there is an option to run with highest privileges.

    2.  On the Trigger tab, Edit Trigger, there is an option to delay the task for 30 seconds, 1 minute, 15 minutes, and more. I wish there was a setting between 1 minute and 15 minutes but there isn't.

    I'm hoping that I can get it to work reliably on this system with some combination of these settings.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-09-26T00:50:16+00:00

    19041.508   May 2020 install on all machines.  Yes, I'm aware of the remote desktop option but....MS should inform/disclose this **** when they make changes on a network item that makes this large of a change.

    @Garth Clark, 

    Just keep filing Feed Back Hub reports and complaints for the bug with MS.

    Doing it just in this thread doesn't do anything unfortunately.

    :-(

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