There is a UPnP Router driver on the Microsoft Update website that needs to be updated for Windows 8, to take into account that the Network Map feature has been removed.

If you have Windows 8 you can see the problem for yourself by going to your 'Network' folder (in Windows explorer) you will see a blank router icon, if you right click it you will also see a "Network Map" shell extension (also present in the 'Devices and Printers' control panel)

If you click "Network Map" you will get this error (because this feture has been removed from Windows 8)

Clearly there needs to be a update of the driver for Windows 8, one with the Network Map shell extension removed and pointing to a icon in other than in NetworkMap.dll (you can find the same icon @2372 in DDORes.dll)

• Changed type ricktendo64 Friday, January 11, 2013 6:12 PM
• Changed type Niki HanModerator Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:45 AM

I have temporarily been using a REG file to fix this issue, here it is in case anybody wants it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Corrects blank router icon
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\NetworkExplorerPlugins\VEN_0033&DEV_0008&REV_01\DefaultIcon]
@="%SystemRoot%\\System32\\DDORes.dll,-2372"

; Removes "Network Map" shell extension from 'Network' explorer
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\NetworkExplorerPlugins\VEN_0033&DEV_0008&REV_01\shell]

; Removes "Network Map" shell extension from 'Devices and Printers' control panel
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\DeviceDisplayObject\HardwareId\UMB#VEN_0033&DEV_0008&REV_01]

Here is what it should look like with the icon corrected and the shell extension(s) removed

I have a Linksys and my friend has a Gateway, we both have the same issue. So my guess is that almost everybody with a UPnP capable router has the EXACT bug and don't know it

• Marked as answer by Niki HanModerator Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:45 AM
• Edited by ricktendo64 Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:30 PM

None, same old Windows 7 driver on Microsoft Update. Now they added that its 8.1 compatible, when its still not!!!

• Edited by ricktendo64 Friday, October 18, 2013 5:24 PM

You HAVE to use two backslashes for file/folder paths in REG files. (Go ahead and export a regkey with a path from regedit you will see this)