But I'm online just fine. I can't change my profile location to private, and I can't make my computer register that it's connected with either my wifi or my ethernet. I've looked through the steps posted here, but to no avail. I don't even have the NetworkList key in my registry! I am online with Firefox and Chrome just fine, but Edge won't connect, nor can I connect to the Store. I did a wipe and reinstall a few days ago, partially to try and resolve this issue, and partially to resolve some other issues dating back to the Insider builds, but this problem is still happening. I'm at my wits end, and I can't even connect to my wife's PC to transfer files. I've enabled network discovery and file sharing on public networks, but that didn't even make a difference. Also, since I reinstalled Windows, I've been unable to activate it, but I think that is tied to this network problem. It's like all the new apps and features won't recognize the connection. I'm not running any security software besides Windows Defender, so that shouldn't be an issue. Does anyone have any thoughts??
Thanks in advance,
JT
Hi jt1990 and welcome to windowssh blog.But I'm online just fine. I can't change my profile location to private, and I can't make my computer register that it's connected with either my wifi or my ethernet. I've looked through the steps posted here, but to no avail. I don't even have the NetworkList key in my registry! I am online with Firefox and Chrome just fine, but Edge won't connect, nor can I connect to the Store. I did a wipe and reinstall a few days ago, partially to try and resolve this issue, and partially to resolve some other issues dating back to the Insider builds, but this problem is still happening. I'm at my wits end, and I can't even connect to my wife's PC to transfer files. I've enabled network discovery and file sharing on public networks, but that didn't even make a difference. Also, since I reinstalled Windows, I've been unable to activate it, but I think that is tied to this network problem. It's like all the new apps and features won't recognize the connection. I'm not running any security software besides Windows Defender, so that shouldn't be an issue. Does anyone have any thoughts??
Thanks in advance,
JT
I am thinking drivers problems. I just finished working on a 6-month-old system 3 days ago, upgraded from W8.1 to W10, with terrible connection problems. I identified the NIC model/mfg. and went online searching for different versions of drivers. Turned out the latest driver (that Windows installed) was the problem, and an install of a previous version solved the issues.
You might also run system file checker, just to make sure everything is okay with system files. You're looking for "no integrity violations found" as the result. If it does find some errors, please reboot and run again (at least 3 times). Also, be sure to turn Fast Startupoff before running the scan.
Hope that helps.
On my other win 10 computer had the same problem and found this "work around" on the Microsoft Users forum. But, I have to do the same reset every morning! Still something is wrong, but it does work to allow network access thruout the day.
My wife's Win 7 computer using the same router, network et c. works fine, so it must be the Win 10 computer itself.
Here it is:
1. right click on the white windows 10 icon on the task bar
2. then choose "command prompt admin"
3. select "yes" to the next pop-up screen which asks about changing the computer
4. then the command prompt appears (like we used to see in DOS)
5. at this point very carefully type in the instruction below exactly (note the uppercase W) and the spaces
netsh Winsock reset
then click on enter.
nothing will happen, but you must then restart your computer.
logon again and you should have network access. Let me know if this works for you.
OhioNavy
Thank you both for your responses I tried the Winsock reset (I honestly didn't know it still existed anymore) but to no avail. I then uninstalled my network drivers and rolled back to a W8.1 driver, but still no luck. I am currently running the SFC and will see if that detects anything, although I'm not expecting it to since it's a brand new install of Windows.