When I click on the Network icon in Windows 7, nothing shows

Hello,

When I click on network icon in windows 7, it starts to show a circle as it is doing something, it actually starts a color bar in the top address field of the explorer as it is completing a search task, but at the end, after the color bar goes all the way, it shows no network connections. I do have a drive mapped from my other computers that still works, so the problem is not the network, but file explorer not showing the network connections. Please help....