Windows 7: Unable to browse to network shares in Explorer, but "map network drive" works fine
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I've got a rather interesting problem cropping up on a few machines right now. I've got a bunch of Windows 7 machines networked with a workgroup at home. I used to be able to simply open the "Run" box and type in "\\computername\sharename" to browse the contents of other machines, but recently this…
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Fix for: Windows 7: Unable to browse to network shares in Explorer, but "map network drive" works fine
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OK, I figured it out. No idea if this is your problem, but here's my fix. I removed the "Network" icon using some registry tweak a "friend" gave me. It removed the following keys: However this alleged friend failed to tell me that this also screws w…
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