Laptop connects to Internet but not to local network

I've been using an HP laptop on wifi to access a hard drive attached to my router. This has been working well for the past couple of years. Last week I took the laptop when I went on vacation. When I got home it said it was unable to reconnect to the drive on the router. As far as I know I had not changed any settings on either the laptop or my home network. It connects to the internet without a problem. A desktop on the same network connects to the router drive without a hitch, so the problem isn't in the router or the drive. The network is set up as private and discovery is turned on.

When I try to map a network drive the router doesn't show up on the list of folders; the only thing that shows up is the laptop.

I tried pinging the router and discovered I can't ping anything, either local or internet, unless I disable the Windows Firewall. If the firewall is on the ping returns "general failure". But turning off the firewall doesn't allow it to find any other devices.

The system is an HP 15-cs2073cl running Win10 21H2.

Thanks.
-- Oobleck

I forgot to mention that I'm running the PIA VPN. But disconnecting it doesn't make any difference.

Here's the ipconfig for the laptop:
Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Crelm
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Unknown adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Private Internet Access Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 8:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 10:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9560 160MHz
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d92:6ec1:7bfa:7c23%12(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.142(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, November 28, 2023 4:00:44 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, November 29, 2023 5:28:31 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 210794561
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-25-40-02-04-80-E8-2C-25-52-14
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

For a desktop on the same network:
Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Bleemis
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::cf09:b3c2:50e4:c50c%12(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.31(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, November 27, 2023 8:39:49 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, November 29, 2023 2:53:41 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 348659558
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-1A-5C-BF-3D-C8-1F-66-42-1D-CD
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Unknown adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Private Internet Access Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

The Unknown adapter Local Area Connection is the PIA (Private Internet Access) VPN connection. It's disconnected because I had turned off the VPN.

C:\Windows\System32>tracert adobe.com

Tracing route to adobe.com [23.59.174.213]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 General failure.

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\System32>tracert 1.1.1.1

Tracing route to one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 General failure.

Trace complete.

I reran the tracerts with the Windows Firewall turned off:

C:\Windows\System32>tracert adobe.com

Tracing route to adobe.com [23.59.174.214]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms RT-AC65-0058 [192.168.50.1]
2 14 ms 18 ms 9 ms 142-254-150-033.inf.spectrum.com [142.254.150.33]
3 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms lag-57.clhgohcc02h.netops.charter.com [24.164.119.53]
4 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms lag-38.clhgohcc01r.netops.charter.com [24.164.236.2]
5 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms lag-25.rcr01clevohek.netops.charter.com [65.29.1.32]
6 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms lag-2-100.rpr01cleyohdh.netops.charter.com [65.29.33.239]
7 25 ms 40 ms 47 ms tge8-5.kentoh0901h.midwest.rr.com [24.33.104.227]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms a23-59-174-214.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [23.59.174.214]

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\System32>tracert 1.1.1.1

Tracing route to one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms <1 ms <1 ms RT-AC65-0058 [192.168.50.1]
2 9 ms 12 ms 11 ms 142-254-150-033.inf.spectrum.com [142.254.150.33]
3 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms lag-57.clhgohcc02h.netops.charter.com [24.164.119.53]
4 12 ms 10 ms 10 ms lag-38.clhgohcc01r.netops.charter.com [24.164.236.2]
5 10 ms 11 ms 10 ms lag-25.rcr01clevohek.netops.charter.com [65.29.1.32]
6 25 ms 17 ms 25 ms lag-2-100.rpr01clmcohwh.netops.charter.com [65.29.33.79]
7 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms 172.68.168.2
8 21 ms 16 ms 15 ms one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]

Trace complete.

- - - Updated - - -

I finally bit the bullet and did a system restore to a point before the problem occurred. That did the trick, though it would have been nice to know what caused the problem in the first place. Thanks for the input, Samuria.
--
oobleck

It could ping with the firewall off, but it still couldn't connect to any local nodes. Turning the VPN off or on didn't make any difference either. Oh well, at least the problem is solved for the time being. Thanks.
-- oobleck