network discovery fails, so I have to map shared drives from other pc


  1. sdowney717
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    network discovery fails, so I have to map shared drives from other pc


    I found this
    Network Discovery - Turn On or Off in Windows 7 - Windows 7 Help Forums

    and this

    Network Discovery property will not turn ON - Windows 7 Help Forums

    On mine, it is turned on, AFAIK, but it never sees any other PC's in the network label of the file manager.
    Ideas?
    I can map the drive manually.
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  3. sdowney717
    Posts : 705
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Fixed completely by doing a new install of win7.

    This also fixed extremely long boot up time. Fixed lots more things I suppose I never knew were broken.

    It had been so slow to boot, I was looking at upgrading hardware to go from sata2 to sata3.
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