Perspective views not loading data

Hello all,
I recently setup Ignition 8.1.40 gateway on an industrial PC and the gateway, designer, project and everything else is working well on the industrial PC itself, however my laptop connected to the pc via ethernet (firewall ports opened on both) cannot connect to gateway. It does however connect through the designer, but the designer does not load any views/view properties or anything along those lines. It says gateway connected on the bottom left corner too in the laptop designer.
SS here for reference.

Has anyone observed this before? Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you!

Sounds like over-aggressive antivirus on your laptop.

When you close the view do you see any errors?

By the way, your view names aren't best practice. It looks like you are using periods. No bueno.

I'll reach out to my IT team and check with them if that's the case. Thank you!

no errors while closing the views.
Also thank you for the suggestions. I'll update them.