By skyforbes I have a 2019 Dell laptop in my LR/DR (originally Win 10, upgraded to 11 about a year ago) that I only use occasionally. My main PC in my office was until recently a 2013 Dell running Win 10. At some point the newer Dell had trouble connecting to my office machine. It was hit or miss, but eventually it mostly would not see it. I had no idea why but I suspect now it was something flaky about the older box. I mostly wanted to use the newer LR machine for occasional writing or streaming/projecting video files to my main TV in the LR, so I looked into that and decided to designate the LR PC as a Media Device in Windows, without really knowing what that meant. It never really worked like I expected and eventually wouldn’t connect at all. When I recently replaced my old office PC with a new Windows 11 PC, the Dell in the LR still didn’t see it, and I couldn’t understand why. Finally I remembered the media device designation (which doesn’t seem well-documented at all) and after some digging, found a way to get rid of it. Instantly, things began working the way I always had hoped with both machines accessing each other routinely. I don’t understand what the Windows Media Device designation is supposed to accomplish, but based on my experience I would steer clear of it.