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Windows 11 - Resetting network configuration after using VPN software

I have used a VPN client recently, and after using it I am unable to play a game because it crashes when connecting to the game servers. One of the things I'm trying to debug is any changes the VPN ...
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Why is a Windows 11 machine only able to connect to router on LAN?

Tested with Windows firewall off (yes, all profiles) Tested with private profile on (but with IP exceptions) as this is profile ethernet adapter is set to. No 3rd party AV or firewall Same subnet ...
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Windows network share doesn't work as intended

On my main PC, when I try to connect to my other pc (I'll refer to it as "SERVER") through the network tab in file explorer I get the error "Windows cannot access \SERVER" with the ...
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Running SQL Server Express on Windows 11 with 10 client PCs

I'm setting up a machine that will be running a SQL Express 2019 server and having 10 client PCS. I think I'm correct with this that Windows 10 or 11 will be fine for that number of devices connecting ...
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How to add a network drive to windows 11 (if the option is not there)?

On a windows 11 system I want to add a network drive to the File Explorer. This is explained in various pages (see e.g. HERE and HERE), but it becomes annoying when you only see the following: I ...
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Issue while connecting a FTP server through public IP

I am using my personal PC to setup a FTP server. I have set with the following configurations: FTP config FTP site / folder settings is as follows: folder settings folder settings -2 I am able to ...
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Windows 11 - You do not have permission to access <machine name> \\<machine name>\share works perfectly well

On one windows 11 (22H2) pc (serverpc), that I support, when trying to access \clientpc1 You do not have permission to access clientpc1 is displayed. The target machine is running windows 10 with ...
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Network Credential does not prompt when accessing shared folder with password protection ON - Windows 11

My folder sharing only worked if it was set as accessible from private, work, and public networks with password protection off. If I enabled password protection I never received a prompt to enter ...
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All Windows 11 nics bridged to windows qemu

how can i bridge all network interfaces from my windows-11 install to the guest system???? I use the windows qemu client. For now use this command with 1 nic in guest, but that do not help me. qemu-...
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127.0.0.1 refused to connect on all ports (windows 11)

I first thought this problem was related to my new install of the Plex media server (installed on Windows 11 laptop), but the problem seems bigger than that. The issue is that neither localhost nor ...
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Windows 11 networking web servers

I'm new to windows 11 (or whatever version), and can't figure out networking: I have a Stable Diffusion server running locally on port 7860 I have a nodejs server running on port 3000 (whatever) ...
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Windows 11 networking issues

I have this strange issue with my Widnows 11 laptop, where the wifi connection is very unstable. It is very random and sometimes it gets better after a while. Here is an example of ping www.google.com ...
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Cannot connect to website hosted on same machine with external IP or URL

I'm hosting a website on my local machine running Windows 11, using a few Docker containers. For about a month everything ran fine and I was able to connect no problem. After not working on it for a ...
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File sharing doesn't work both ways - Windows 10 and 11

I'm trying to share folders from my desktop with windows 10(a custom build) to my laptop (a surface pro 8) with windows 11, my laptop has access to my desktop shared folders with no problems. But, ...
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127.0.0.2 address ping reply is coming from 127.0.0.1

I have no idea what has happend in my windows configuration. But when i ping address 127.0.0.2 address reply is coming from 127.0.0.1. This was not like this before and this is important to me as this ...
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Accessing WSL2 from my LAN (Static IP?)

I want to access, from my LAN, services provided by the linux distribution installed into WSL2. Ok, I know how to remap ports on the host. My problem is that the Windows11 host assigns a different IP ...
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Enable Hotspot without an internet connection

I'm a developer and I often need to connect to embedded devices without having an internet connection (for instance, a Raspberry Pi). However, Windows would not let me create a hotspot network unless ...
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Windows firewall is blocking file sharing and ping

I am having trouble setting up file sharing on my Windows 11 PC. I have tried to set up the PC using the Network and Sharing Center (Network discovery is on, file and printer sharing is on). I have ...
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What might be stopping my laptops from seeing each other? They can both see a third computer on the network, but can't see each other?

I have a Windows 10 Dell XPS, and a new Windows 11 Dell XPS that I wish to migrate my files to. Whatever I try though, I can't get either laptop to see each other. Yet they BOTH can see my wife's ...
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Set IP of two remote devices, connected by Ethernet adapter on Windows 11

This is supposed to be trivial, but for some reason it's not. I have two devices, each with its own IP. I need to interact with both simultaneously from my Windows 11 laptop, using a switch. Each ...
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How to setup second ETH adapter for host while using first for Hyper-V VMs only?

Windows 11 x64 Pro. I have Hyper-V which has an external switch which is used by VMs. I have 2 Ethernet ports on the machine. I want to use 2nd port for everything except Hyper-V VMs. How to setup ...
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Why all network traffic goes through Hyper-V switch?

I installed Hyper-V and created a VM, added external virtual switch. I just realised that now the whole host machine traffic goes through it too. Why? Whats the latency of this unwanted "magic&...
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Some websites take extremely long to load and show stalled in network tab

Some websites are loading extremely slow. When I look at the Network tab in the browser devtools, it shows resources being stalled for a long time. A few examples of sites that I'm having issues with ...
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