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I got it working. I'm connected to the DVR on my Windows 10 laptop. The only thing I did was remove the device I manually put in there, then ran the Search on my network for the device, it found it! Thanks again for all your suggestions. Two brains are better than one.

Thanks for chiming in and giving me a few things to check on, but I'm still stuck. I'm going to load it on a Windows 7 system and see what it does.

I just tried to access it with Chrome and the login screen came up for the DVR. But when I put in my credentials it tells me I have to install the plug-ins first. When the plugin window appeared I clicked Ok so it would install but every time I try to login it keeps telling me to install the plugins...

This is on a wireless network. I can ping it from my laptop and it responds quickly. So I know they see each other. Yet when I use the utility in the program to search for the DVR it doesn't find anything. But when I use a program like Advanced IP Scanner, it finds the DVR among all my other devices...

I installed Amcrest Surveillance Pro on my Windows 10 laptop and it can't see the DVR. I've turned off firewalls, opened the port (37777) in my Windows Defender. But I still can't get into my DVR. Now here's the kicker. I have an old Windows XP system that I loaded the software onto and although the...