As a matter of interest, have you seen the suggestion of using a shortcut anywhere else? I've been seeing this behaviour for months and it never bothered me as I could just enter the name. When you confirmed this was your issue I thought is there a simple way to get round it and as entering the name in the address bar works I thought a shortcut was worth a try - and it worked a treat.
It's my NAS box that is odd. It doesn't appear in the navigation pane to start with even though I have permanent drive mappings on it which do show up (without any red crosses). It never appears as a computer and always appears as a media device. If I put \\nasbox in the address bar (or use the shortcut) it appears in the navigation pane and all the shares appear in the main pane. It stays visible in the navigation pane until I close and re-open Windows Explorer, but visibility in the main pane when Network is selected doesn't change.
You need Show desktop icons to be on.Right click on the desktop and select New ShortcutEnter the location of the item as \\nasboxGive the shortcut a name and FinishYou can now right click the shortcut and pin to startor quick accessYou could also create shortcuts to subfolders on the device.
It’s actually a master browser issue I suspect. You can check which device is acting as master browser with nbtstat -a.
It is bizarre when you consider that very thing is why some people stuck with Windows rather than moving to Linux.
I stick with Windows because I grew up with it, and know it, every time I look at Linux I end up coming to the same conclusion, that it's too steep a learning curve, and like pfSense there's too much complicated not fully explained information on the net. My brothers of the same opinion.
Now, Windows 10 v2004 users are facing issues when using Malwarebytes. According to users on the forums, Malwarebytes on v2004 is causing devices to freeze, lag and is even preventing apps from launching.
So... no deferring windows update for 365 days.... gone only 35 days now