SteveStrummerUK
 
Coincidentally, I invented a new computer game today.
 
The main character has to make as many people as he can feel uncomfortable by standing very close to them...
 
I'm calling it Personal Space Invaders.

craigb
(no ideas, have you searched Google?)

endlessly. to no avail.

I did a quick search last night, but didn't find an easy answer. Maybe a Master Browser kind of thing, but I gave up (sorry).
 
Since it's showing as a media file, perhaps you have a DLNA media streaming device in your Domain/Workgroup causing the problem - maybe a NAS drive, media player, networked TV or set top box or something?
 
 
The fact that you can't find any information about how it works or what might be wrong is why I don't use it in the first place and I do it the command line way (using a .bat file).
 
But you can just open the Run dialog and type \\192.168.1.x\Share_name and it will open Explorer and then you can pin it to the Taskbar instead.
 
Usually when Microsoft and all the other tech companies try to make things "easy" and deliberately hide the details of what's actually going on, it just makes it a nightmare to troubleshoot if something doesn't work.

All your DAW belong to us
 
 

 

drewfx1
Since it's showing as a media file, perhaps you have a DLNA media streaming device in your Domain/Workgroup causing the problem - maybe a NAS drive, media player, networked TV or set top box or something?

 
I do have a NAS but (TMK) no media player. And I definately DO NOT have a networked TV or set top box on my network.
 
The Lovely Lady has an XP box on a fixed IP address but I do not try to include her in my "W7" devices.
 
I have a networked laser printer (Brother) but that has been on the network ever since I went W7.
 
It feels like the problem is contained within laptop since the DAW does not act that way. Again, the only difference between the laptop and the DAW is W7 Home vs. Pro.

You could try flushing your DNS cache which may well be screwed.
 
C:\ipconfig /flushdns
 
You will have to run CMD as admin

Wookiee
You could try flushing your DNS cache which may well be screwed.
 
C:\ipconfig /flushdns
 
You will have to run CMD as admin

No change. BTW, wouldn't a reboot flush the DNS cache? I ask because reboot does not change anything.

I saw something like this a few months ago.  Unfortunately, there are multiple possible causes for this sort of thing.
 
Do you have Home Sharing enabled and configured on all of these machines?  I'm not saying this is the culprit, but I have seen home networking weirdness after pcs/laptops received MS patches that "enhanced" Home Sharing.
 
Do you have IPv6 enabled on your router and on each pc/laptop?  There are some articles circulating about network discovery problems that disappeared once IPv6 was disabled.  The problem was not actually due to IPv6, but had more to do with a router that was improperly handling IPv6.  There are other articles claiming that MS broke IPv6 with some patches.  Other articles claim the moon landings were real, so consider the source.
 
How old/new is your router?  While it is unlikely that the problem is caused by your router, I have seen network discovery problems in homes where the number of networked devices increased and the router couldn't keep up.  I had a router that worked fine for several years until the number of networked devices outnumbered the human population.  I bought a new router and the problems vanished. 
 
Hope that helps. 

UbiquitousBubba
Do you have Home Sharing enabled and configured on all of these machines?  I'm not saying this is the culprit, but I have seen home networking weirdness after pcs/laptops received MS patches that "enhanced" Home Sharing.

 
DING DING DING 
 
We have a winner!!!!!
 
Removed from Homegroup worked.

microsoft  update patches always break something here at skool...