Win 10 Laptos not seeing each other on network.

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Wretched4one

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So recently I bought two identical ASUS laptops both with Windows 10. They cannot see each other but they can see my Win 7 desktop and it can see them and share files.

Laptops are Win 10 ver.21H2, with private network discovery and file printer sharing on and public off.
Desktop is Win 7 Ser Pk 1, build 7601, with Home/Wrk on and public off.
All three are in the same workgroup.

Thoughts?
 
Have you tried this?
  1. Win+R and type Control Panel or C:\Windows\system32\control.
  2. Click on Network and Internet.
  3. Select Network and sharing Center.
  4. View Network Computers and Devices
There you will see if Network Discovery is turned off or on.
 
I thought I provided instructions for advanced IP scanner sorry about that, download it from the windows 7 machine and scan the network, are the both windows 10 machines named the same? If so, that could be the issue. If so click me to see how to change the name. You will need to only change the name of one of the windows 10 machines.
As well please run this tool on both of the windows 10 machines. And attach the logs.

Please downloaded MINITOOLBOX unzip to your desktop and run it as admin.

Checkmark following boxes:

Flush DNS
Reset FF proxy Settings
Reset Ie Proxy Settings
Report IE Proxy Settings
Report FF Proxy Settings
List content of Hosts
List IP configuration
List Winsock Entries
List last 10 Event Viewer log
List Installed Programs
List Users, Partitions and Memory size
List Devices (problems only)

Click Go and Attach the log in your reply.
More on Network Discovery HERE ---- Here --- Here

Ensure all services are running as well. See here.

Avast has been known to cause networking issues, if you have gone thru all of the above to no avail, then I'd suggest that you remove it from all machines with GeekUnistaller.
Then from an elevated command prompt, run the following commands hitting enter after each. Easier to copy and paste one at a time.


ipconfig /flushdns
netsh advfirewall reset
netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state On

Then reboot the machines after removing Avast and running the commands.
 
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georgeks said:
Have you tried this?
  1. Win+R and type Control Panel or C:\Windows\system32\control.
  2. Click on Network and Internet.
  3. Select Network and sharing Center.
  4. View Network Computers and Devices
There you will see if Network Discovery is turned off or on.
Click to expand...
As I said in my initial post, private set to on public off.
 
After you remove Avast, if issues persist.

Open a notepad and copy the content of the code box below, paste into open notepad and save it to your desktop as NetworkService.bat then right click on NetworkService.bat and run as admin.

Note: Do not copy the word code.

Note: This batch will reboot your machine so close anything you are working on and save it.


Code: 
@echo off
sc start Dnscache
sc config Dnscache start= auto
sc start FDResPub
sc config FDResPub start= auto
sc start SSDPSRV
sc config SSDPSRV start= auto
sc start upnphost
sc config upnphost start= auto
ipconfig /flushdns
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Network Discovery" new enable=Yes
pause
shutdown -r
Exit /B
 
You could just start out by uninstalling Avast.

If that does not work, then you have some trouble shooting steps all in one spot.

No one said you had to do it all, just putting this information out there so if one thing doesn’t work you can try another...

If you would scan the network with the windows 7 machine, with the tool provided...

If both windows 10 machines are named the same then they won’t see each other, no two computers on one network can be named the same, else there will be issues.

Step two uninstalling avast, then the other things are really simple, potentially taking you no more than ten minutes to complete.
 
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