You create a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network on a computer that's running a pre-Windows 8.1 version of Windows. However, when you try to connect a computer that's running Windows 8.1 to the ad hoc network, the network does not appear in the list of available networks on the Windows 8.1-based computer.
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