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camira

I don’t have that option “Find devices and content” in Windows 8.1, why?

ay

I don’t have this on 8.1 either. My installation is an upgrade from 8 to 8.1.

tim woodlief

I don’t have that option either

GotSQL

If you are a standard user, you will not see “Find devices and content”. Try switching to an administrator account. This is what worked for me. Hope it helps.

ay

Good suggestion, but that doesn’t work either. I had tried that already. My normal user is already part of the Administrators group and I also enabled the Administrator account and tried it as well with no luck. I believe it’s is a bug after having tried those. Microsoft needs to fix it and provide a Windows Update update soon.

Eddie V.

Switching to Administrator worked for me. Bit of a hassle though with all the tablets and PCs in the house, now I have to go to each one and log fully in as Admin. There should be a UAC pop-up that allows you to switch this without the extra login steps.

AlexPav

Sorry, my last comment did not post completely:

You could do this via Windows Powershell. Make sure to start it elevated (Run as Administrator)

1. run Get-NetConnectionProfile command to find the list of all connected interfaces. Note the interface ID of the connection that you are trying to change.
2. Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceIndex 31 -NetworkCategory Private

Other values for the NetworkCategory could be Public or DomainAuthenticated

matthew hintzen

Pain in the butt to use Powershell, but this was the only way I could get to the settings, thanks Alex.

Mary Watson

I was going bald from hair pulling becasue none of these suggestions were working at all. the things showing in the images were not on my computer, the powershell bit would not allow it and then someone suggested:

1. Ensure you have discovery turned on for Private (if wanting to change from public to private)

2. Go to Control Panels and instead of clicking the Network icon go to the search bar and just type in Network. The very first item in the list is all things associated with the control panel.

3. Click on View network computers and devices to get a new window that asks the question of No for private or Yes for Public and click NO then save

This will change your preferences from public to private in 8.1 Windows software. Doing the opposite will change from private to public.

Dan

Frickin fantastic that this is here for a know-nothing like me. THANK YOU!