Missing Network Map under Network and Sharing Center in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

re: Missing Network Map under Network and Sharing Center in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

chandler.hall@gmail.com — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:53:20 GMT

Great article. Thanks! However, under Vista Home Premium 64 Bit, this didn't quite work. I then selected each of the {xxxx} GUID lines under "profiles" and added the same NT SERVICE\netprofm using same process of "check names" and "Advanced (clicking extra boxes)". Reboot. This worked. Thanks to you and the other comment person that mentioned Vista 64. Apparently, V64 has one further quirk.

re: Missing Network Map under Network and Sharing Center in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

Todd — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:44:40 GMT

Using Vista 64

Adding LocalService to the administrators group did not clear up the issue

re: Missing Network Map under Network and Sharing Center in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

Todd — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:39:59 GMT

I get access denied when trying step 6:

C:\> sc config netprofm type=own

Any suggestions?

re: Missing Network Map under Network and Sharing Center in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

Matt Newton — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:28:12 GMT

Thanks for the informative article. I was able to trace the problem using your steps to those registry keys under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles. However, I have two questions:

1. Do you know why Windows seems to often install without this set up properly?

2. Do you know how to get those registry keys to inherit permissions? I was able to set the permissions the way you illustrated, but until I actually went and set them for each GUID key under profiles, it didn't actually take because even though I set them to inherit from the parent, they did NOT inherit.

Cheers,

Matt