bobdabuilda, you're not alone! There are numerous threads on this or very similar issues. (One of them is here https://www.tenforums.com/network-sharing/16582-unable-see-win7-1-shares.html). I'm...

If you've got a warning against the network icon on the Win7 machine it may well be that there's something wrong with your adapter or your router isn't connected to the internet. You may know all...

At the moment I've got networking working between the two machines. (I hate saying that as I think its tempting fate!).

I did a fresh install of Win10 Pro and setup a local account. I then...

I'm logging on as a local account. My first time around I found that I had inadvertently converted to an MS Account and couldn't convert back. Hence the first need to re-install Win10.

I spoke too soon. Having been able to share files/folders for a whole day and having been able to sync about 100Gb of data it stopped working. I was unable to fix it for two days so am now on my...

I've given up! Did a fresh install of Win10 on the laptop and all is now working.

Although I'm able to see my desktop computer in the network folder of my laptop I can't open it to see any of the shares!

My desktop is a Win 7.1 Ultimate system fully up to date. My laptop was a...