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Old 31st Dec 2014, 23:56
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Keef

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Network display in Windows 7

There's a useful little feature in Windows 7 that allows display of the complete network map, with connected computers, printers, etc (apart from Apple stuff, which is stealthy). It allowed me to check that remote stuff elsewhere in the house and workshop is connected and doing its thing.

Then I got the replacement laptop. If that's connected via a wired link, the network display works OK on both laptop and desktop. If the laptop is only connected via WiFi, then both machines give an error message and won't display.

If the laptop is switched off altogether (so everything is as it was until the laptop arrived in the house last week) the error message still displays on the desktop PC. When the old laptop was in service, there was no problem.

Can anyone suggest what's wrong?
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