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Thanks for the reply.

The printer is hooked up to my desktop.  The other computer (a laptop) is networked to my desktop and I share the printer with it but, when I look at ‘Network’ in File Explorer, it doesn’t show the network just ‘Unknown Device’.  If I click on the drop down menu, then I can see the desktop computer and, when I click that, it connects.

The problem is I have to do that every time I start the laptop and want to print.  It is rather inconvenient and I am sure their must be a way for the network to be connected every time both machines are running.

Thanks.

Bob

Paul,

I was able to set File History on my wife’s machine. Since she too only have one drive it asked me if I wanted to search the network (at least that is what I think it said). When I did that it gave me a number of options (basically the drivers/folders that I had set to share). I just picked one and it worked. I now have all of my wife’s libraries on my machine as File History entries. It will make it great if she every needs to go back to an old version of one of her files.

Thanks.

Bob

Paul,

Thanks for the reply. Yes I have full backups for both machines. I learned a long time ago the dangers of not having back ups. In fact the real reason I want to link the two machines is to take advantage of the File History feature in W10. I already have my wife’s libraries ‘backed up’ on File History on my machine and I want to do the same with my files on my wife’s machine. But since currently my system can’t access her system I can’t get File History to work.

I don’t know if Home groups will provide the same functionality and if going that way will somehow create a problem with the link I have already established.

Thanks.

Bob

Paul,

Thanks for all your advice. I would rather avoid starting a new process such as Homegroup if I can avoid it.

Bob

Paul,

Thanks for the reply. When I try to browse the remote PC I get the message I originally posted. If I just highlight the remote PC and right click I get the following
45396-Network-error

And neither PC needs a login to start Win10.

Thank you for all your responses but I think I will see if I can get someone to come over and reconnect my machine to my wife’s.

Thanks again.

Bob

Coochin,

Thanks. I found it but that doesn’t not appear to be part of the solution. I can now find Map Network Drive but the drives I want to see are C and D and they aren’t listed.

Bob

Paul,

Thanks for the reply. Both machines are running W10. I suspect you are correct in that it is P2P networking. The one machine can see everything on the other machine (not just some folders). The C and D drives are available. Neither machine uses any kind of log in.

I looked under File in File explorer on both machines and the option of Map network drive is not available.

Thanks.

Bob

Paul,

Thanks for the reply. I am not using Home Groups (but maybe I should). This was just configured as peer to peer. So in the case of the other computer, it can see and read all of the files (program and data) on my computer. But I can see the other computer but can’t seem to get access.

Thanks.

Bob

RG,

Thanks again for your advice. I started from the beginning and downloaded WDO again as well as downloaded and ran the virus definition update. Alas, the result was the same. WDO said that the definitions were out of date. The update tab didn’t have any definitions posted.

I think you and I have spent enough time on this. I will just look for a different offline package. I don’t have a problem but wanted to prepare in case I get one. But clearly WDO and my system aren’t playing nice with one another.

Again thanks for taking the time to help me.

Bob

RG,

Well I tried it but was not successful. I downloaded the 64 bit file (mpas-fex64.exe) and ran it. I had the WDO USB in the drive and it seemed to work. Or at least the mpas-fex64.exe was installed on the USB. Since I wasn’t sure if anything had happened I ran that same file from the USB. I then rebooted with the USB driver and WDO but got the same message about the virus definitions being out of date. Did I miss some step along the way?

Thanks.

Bob

Coochin,

Thanks. I will take a look at it as well

Bob

RG,

How extremely helpful. Many thanks again.

Bob

Retired Geek,

Thanks. This is great. I will try to download the updated signatures tomorrow and try it out. This will also let me use another internet connected machine to download the signatures if I run into trouble.

Now why wouldn’t MS put that on the WDO webpage.

Again many thanks.

Sudo15,

Thanks. I thought that might be the answer. I might send a note to MS but I am not hopeful that this is the package I want to depend on to get me out of trouble. I appreciate your swift reply.

Bob

It would seem that WDO doesn’t have a built in option to connect to the ‘net to obtain its own updates – unlike the Kaspersky Rescue bootable disk.

http://support.kaspersky.co.uk/viruses/rescuedisk

Not sure there’s a way around that if MS don’t have an up to date package you can download – perhaps you should take that up with MS…..

Jerry,

Thanks. As my note to Banyarola said I tried an experiment and changed the toggle on hiding the pointer when typing. I had it checked but it never really was hidden so I unchecked it and all of a sudden the pointer was hidden when I typed and the cursor disappeared. So I hope the problem is now to a level that it is manageable.

Thanks for your help.

Bob