Cumulative Update KB4048955 Windows 10 v1709 Build 16299.64

@TheAncient - if this continues, you should take a look at this tutorial and hide this update, so you can use your PC again
for normal daily work:

Hide or Show Windows Updates in Windows 10

Well, they did it to me again! I let Microsoft update all my systems to W10 1709 and now Network Discovery is flaky again.

One machine, my home server, does not show up in the network on any of my systems, in fact, it does not show itself under Network! One of the other systems takes forever to get discovered and sometimes does not get discovered at all until I reboot and hope!

Luckily, I have all the Home Server drives mapped on all the other systems so it is not a total disaster. All of the systems on the network are running W10 1709. I have checked all the usual stuff and it seems OK. The last time I ran into this issue the Windows update made several of the machines Public! Any ideas on what else I should be looking at to get the network back to where it was prior to 1709 would be appreciated.

Ken429 said:

Well, they did it to me again! I let Microsoft update all my systems to W10 1709 and now Network Discovery is flaky again.

One machine, my home server, does not show up in the network on any of my systems, in fact, it does not show itself under Network! One of the other systems takes forever to get discovered and sometimes does not get discovered at all until I reboot and hope!

Luckily, I have all the Home Server drives mapped on all the other systems so it is not a total disaster. All of the systems on the network are running W10 1709. I have checked all the usual stuff and it seems OK. The last time I ran into this issue the Windows update made several of the machines Public! Any ideas on what else I should be looking at to get the network back to where it was prior to 1709 would be appreciated.

I had a similar problem. I had discover checked in all networks. Like you I did everything that I could think of. What I finally did was, in settings> Network> click on reset network. It said PC will restart in 5 minuets. When it did, it came up with a box on the desktop that said, Do you want this PC to be discovered. I click yes, and it fixed it.

Clint,

Thank you for the suggestion. It worked for me too. I don't know what MSFT is doing but it seems like ever since the second or third major updates to W10 there have been problems with network discovery - some worse than others. I'll add the Network Reset to the bag of tricks to have available for the next W10 update! Thanks again.

This update was installed on my HP laptop yesterday morning. It caused me many problems. My browser lost all of it's bookmarks, my Start Screen lost all the tiles that I had setup, it caused most of my programs to be lost. My computer basically looked like a brand new Win 10 install had happened, just a few items on the Taskbar and a few icons on the desktop. I attempted to uninstall this update, only to now have a computer that wants me to put the Win 10 media in to either repair or install Win 10. My next step will be to remove the drive to recover as much of my data as I can, and then to reinstall Win 10, doing a Format of the drive as I do it. This is not the first time that an update has caused me problems. I sometimes wonder if these updates are tested before being dumped on us.

I'll add the Network Reset to the bag of tricks to have available for the next W10 update! Thanks again.

Me to. I hope that I don't forget. Glad it worked for you.

Hi,

ability to have multiple flash drives

You mean multiple partitions, right ?

Rufus works too to create a Win to Go drive.
Anyway, thanks for the info.

Cheers,

I have massive Problems with Performance on my PC. Most in game direction. low fps 4 nomore after this forced update -.-