It could be the 3rd party software too. This post may help.
network discovery is turned offuntil I reboot and then again, I get a notice
that Network discovery is turned off if I try to browse the network. My
other Vista (X86) does not have this ...
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"charly" <charly@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "unknown" wrote: network discovery keeps turning off"
> Quote:
>> I had the same problem sharing file and printer turned off after reboot.
> This solution helps (for me):
> - Start mmc.exe from console prompt.
> - Select File/Add Windows Firewall extended snapin.
> - Double click Windows Firewall
> - Select all predefined incoming and outgoing rules for file and printer
> sharing and activate all of them (for each scope: private, domain,
> public).
> - Done.
> I did the same for remote desktop rules, since I want to use remote
> desktop.
>
> I do not know wheter this is a good idea, it just helps. But there might
> be
> some security vulnerabilities doing so. I would appreciate some comment
> from
> a networking guy.
>
> The problem occured after I installed VMWare 6 on my machine. This
> installs
> a Network for vor the virtual maachines, which is viewed as a public
> network.
> I tried to switch it to private, but it was turned back to public after
> reboot.
>