Dave Plowman wrote:

You can't actually ping things with Win 10.

Of course you can, here's one of my win10 pinging another win10

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.388]
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C:\Users\Andyping jablaptop

Pinging jablaptop.lan [192.168.1.191] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.191: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.191: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.191: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.191: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.191:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 9ms, Average = 4ms

but if yours can't it's likely because there's a firewall blocking it.