Network Discovery won't stay ticked

I definitely have no interest in repeating this drill.

Is the 6to4 adapter I need to replace?

So last night I began physically uninstalling all of the 362 instances of the 6to4 adapter and managed to get about half of them before I had to give it up for the evening. This morning I turned on the laptop, broght up the device manager and prepared once again to enter the fray and to my surprise and disbelief, they were all gone and the network issue had resolved itself.

Could this have really happened or have I become delusional?

I figured the problem would resolve itself once the 6 to 4 adaptors were gone but I'm not sure why they seemed to delate themselfs, probably just rebooting helped.

If it starts creating more of those adaptors again on each start up just try another more recent driver from the Asus support site which should fix the problem for good.

Well, I guess it all comes out in the end :)

Thanks for the help... This one's been bugging me for some time!

I read through this thread wondering why everyone was telling you to scan your system, run updates blah blah blah. Just run gpedit.msc or open group policy and navagiate to



Computer Policy\Policies\Administrative Templates\Network\Link-Layer Topology Discovery


Select the options you want, there should be two entries with options; public, private, and domain. One setting is for the server and the other is for the workstation. This works windows 7 and up, not qute sure about other oses.


Also make sure Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper is on in services.

chev65 said:

This problem is usually caused from certain services not being enabled or set to automatic.
Please check your Services. Ensure that the required services are Started on all the computers: Go to Start\Control Panel\ Administrative Tools\ Services.

o Computer Browser
o DHCP Client
o DNS Cliento Network Connections
o Network Location Awareness
o Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
o Servero TCP/IP Netbios helper
o Workstation

All of these services should be started, and their startup type should be automatic.
To change the startup type, double-click on the service name and change accordingly.This should do the trick.

I'm back using my account after 8 years just to say thank you to an abandoned thread because some of the services when I checked were disabled.Once again, thank you!