Does ipconfig /all show valid IP info from your dhcp server? Does ipconfig /renew fix it for you?

I couldn't find an error in the event log.

I was fighting this problem for a month or so until I realized the solution for me was to either extend my router DHCP lease time to a very long period or use a static lease. I originally had a 24...

To fix your user music file permissions you can do the following:
1. Open an admin prompt and cd to your user folder (cd /users/xxx)
2. Enter "icacls Music /reset /t /q"
This will reset your...

This might work for you.

You can still use the icacls command to reset/restore your permissions. In my case it appears that when OneDrive fires up it goes out and resets permissions for the folders that were shared through...

Here is what worked for me (so far anyway). In my Change HomeGroup Sharing Settings dialog I set all of the permissions to Not Shared for Pictures, Videos, Music, Documents and Printers & Devices....

For those of you having this permission issue, are you using both onedrive and homegroup (or either of them)?

Right, same here. No amount of waiting was enough for it to go away.....until I let the dialog say active and then walked away for an hour.

I too was having this same issue on an upgraded Win 7 box. I noticed that when I started a search in the Cortana box and while the "We're getting search ready" box came up the SearchUI/Cortanta task...