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How to remove homegroup icon from Windows Explorer?
I'd like to remove "Homegroup" from the left side of my Windows Explorer in Windows 7/8.
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Windows 7 Homegroups not working?
I've got a homegroup set up, and only the accounts/machines where the user and password is identical can see/share files. I thought the setting to let homegroup control the accounts would make that ...
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Is it possible to use IPv6 in LAN with router only supporting IPv4?
My router (Belkin N1 Vision) seem to only support IPv4. The problem is that i'm trying to get Windows 7 Homegroup going and it requires IPv6. I'm trying to connect home computer which is connected to ...
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How can I connect a Snow Leopard computer to a Windows 7 homegroup?
Is there any way to connect to a Windows 7 homegroup from a Mac running Snow Leopard? The computers show up in my Finder on the left side as PCs, but when I try to connect I don't see anything. Any ...
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Can't connect my school laptop to my homegroup
Well I've been trying quite a lot of things, it worked to connect through my other laptop which is not given by my school so there's nothing wrong with the homegroup itself. But I need a way to ...
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How can I hide the Homegroup icon on the desktop?
Last night a Windows update on my Windows 7 machine added a new "Homegroup" icon to my desktop.
I don't want the icon on my desktop but can't see any way to get rid of it.
It's not listed in the ...
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Windows 8 Homegroup Password
If you join a Homegroup from a Windows 8 machine, you are prompted for a password. This password is subsequently visible whenever you enter the homegroup settings:
This is silly. Is there a way to ...
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How to stop homegroup sharing folders?
I have homegroup on my PC and laptop, both running Windows 7. I can share the folders and files easily, but the problem is I can't stop sharing the folder. Even I went to computer > manage and stop ...
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Can see other computers in Homegroup and their libraries, but nothing happens when I click them
I created a Homegroup for the 3 PC's in our home running W7. The problem is that all 3 PC's are in the Homegroup and I can see eachother, but when I try to click on the shared library on either of the ...
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Homegroup sharing problems
I can see other people in my homegroup and their folders, but when I click on those folders, I cannot see the contents (no error message, just nothing happens).
The other people in the Homegroup can ...
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How can I push new files in shared folders to my Homegroup?
I am using the Homegroup feature in Windows 7. Usually, the folders I have specified to be shared are available across all of the computers on the Homegroup, as desired.
Unfortunately, when new ...
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How do I install a Windows 7 Homegroup printer?
I have a local printer on Desktop A and I want to use it on LapTop B. I have made a homegroup and can copy files between the two computers. On Desktop A I have the 'Printers' checked, in order to ...
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Installing HomeGroup Printer
I have two Windows 7 computers on a HomeGroup. I am on "Computer A" and need to access a printer connected to "Computer B". On Computer A, the HomeGroup panel tells me that it found a new shared ...
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Cannot seem to create Homegroup
For some reason I cannot seem to find the option to create a Homegroup after I removed it (just the join now button is available). The homegroup provider and listener services are running. Why would ...
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Printer offline until spooler service is restarted multiple times
When I try to print from my ThinkPad to a printer shared through a Windows 7 Homegroup hosted by a desktop computer, I often have to restart the Print Spooler service several times before the job will ...
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iTunes - stuck in authorization loop
I just got a new laptop with Windows 7 and thought that instead of trying to recover my music from my iPhone, I would just use the Homegroup I have set up to transfer the music from my old laptop. ...
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What is a HomeGroup?
I cannot seem to understand what exactly a HomeGroup is.
What is a HomeGroup, and how is it different from a Workgroup or a Domain?
(I already understand the last 2.)
Why would I want to use a ...
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Joining Windows 7 Homegroup breaks connections to shares
I have a Windows 7 Home Premium box that runs as my home server. I have three accounts on it, my Admin account, a TV account, and a "share" account. I map a network drive from other PCs and Macs ...
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Homegroup and HomeUsers group
I have some troubles with homegroup's feature using two windows 7 64-bit based devices (laptop and desktop).
Desktop is connected via LAN cable and the laptop via WiFi. Both use the same subnet and ...
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Windows 7: how to setup a Homegroup - IPv6 error?
Every time I try to setup a Homegroup I get an error message that I need to have IPv6 enabled. When I check the system it says that IPv6 is enabled.
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Can't view other computers on Network
Systems:
My Machine: Windows 7 Ultimate connected through ethernet into router
Her Machine--Other Machine: Windows 7
Ultimate connected through wireless
Router:F5D8236-4 N Wireless Router
Version 1
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Can a Windows 7 HomeGroup permit VPN connections?
Would like to integrate HomeGroup with my VPN (Hamachi/LogMeIn) addresses. Possible?
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Homegroup doesn't show other computers, but “Network” does
I have a desktop and a laptop (both running windows 7) in my Windows 7 homegroup. The desktop created the homegroup, and the laptop joined it. Both share a few folders.
On the laptop, I have no ...
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How to check if someone is using files which you have shared in homegroup?
How to check if someone is using files which you have shared in homegroup?
How many ppl use these files, which file are they using?
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One workgroup computer not visible under “Network” in explorer
Network consists of 7 clients. 5 running XP and 2 running Win-7. On a new windows 7 machine in explorer under network all of the computers are visible except one XP machine. All other clients can see ...
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No Homegroup Computers, Network Troubleshooter Fails
I have a problem with my Windows 7 Homegroup, between two Windows 7 Home Premium machines.
On one machine I get this:
The other machine in the Homegroup is perfectly happy and is able to see and ...
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How to disable groups and sharing in Windows 7
Windows 7 has some great features for sharing stuff with the other computers and other family members in your house.
But... for someone on a single computer and no other computers in the home, those ...
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Can Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 join a homegroup?
A simple question that I couldn't find an answer to through Google search - can Windows Server (some recent version) join a homegroup?
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Cannot set up Windows 7 HomeGroup - “An error occurred”
Naive as I was, I convinced my grandparents to replace their XP machines with new Windows 7 computers, since HomeGroups would relief all of their sharing pains.
Was I wrong... Ever since I've been ...
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Windows 7 sharing issues
I have two desktops with Windows 7 Pro 32 bit, one laptop with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and one netbook with Windows 7 Starter. The two desktops can see each other. From DT1 I can see and Read and Write ...
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Windows 7 Homegroup - Does it work on a per user or all users basis?
I have two PC's with the same two accounts on them (e.g. PC 1 has accounts X and Y, and PC 2 has accounts X and Y)
Does the Homegroup feature work on a per account basis?
For example, if I setup the ...
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How can I equate the same user on different Windows 7 machines within a home group?
Here's my scenario. In our home I have a desktop and a laptop, my wife has a laptop and my two sons each have a desktop. All these machines run Windows 7. I can set up shares on either of my machines ...
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IPv6 issue with joining HomeGroup while using Comodo Firewall in Windows 7
I just created a HomeGroup on another Win7 machine at home and am trying to connect my main machine to it. Unfortunately, I'm getting an error that I think relates to my usage of Comodo Firewall.
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Is it secure to run Windows 7 HomeGroup over an unsecured wifi network?
Just wondering what the security implications are of running Windows 7 HomeGroup over an unsecured (open) WiFi network.
Are there known hacks on the HomeGroup password or is it possible to otherwise ...
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Setting up a network share folder on Windows 7
I'm trying to set up a network share folder for Windows 7 so we can use Quick books Enterprise 7.0 in multi user mode. I've tried everything that Quickbooks has said to do and everything in Windows 7, ...
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How to extend existing home network via Ethernet with an Encore ENHWI-2AN3?
My goal is to extend internet and a home network into an Encore ENHWI-2AN3. Wifi does not reach so it is done over ethernet cable. Just plugging the device in, it will have internet, but doesn't ...
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Homegroup libraries visible but can't be opened
I have 2 Windows 7 PCs in a home network. When I create a homegroup, the libraries I share are visible on the opposing machine but when I doubleclick them nothing happens - no error message, nothing ...
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Share a Portable Disk in a Homegroup
I have two Windows 7 computers in the same Homegroup and file share is working. My question is that is there any way to share all the disk? In particular, I have some portable disks and my goal is ...
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Can't see contents of shared folders in homegroup
I can see other people in my homegroup and their folders, but when I click on those folders, I cannot see the contents.
When I click a folder, this message appears:
Windows cannot ...
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Can XP access HomeGroup shares if NetBIOS service is disabled on hosting Win-7 machine?
I am upgrading a small non-profit organization's computers and network. I will install Windows 7 Professional on 9 machines and Windows XP SP3 on 3 very old machines. I am interested in using ...
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Folders not showing up in Windows HomeGroup
I have one desktop and two laptops connected to my HomeGroup. The problem I'm having is that the default folders show up just fine if I try and access files from one of the laptops, but I can't seem ...
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Windows 7: Homegroup Connectivity
It seems that no matter what I do, I cannot get my two computers to work together and join the same Homegroup.
The computers in question:
Desktop with Win7 Ultimate x64 connected via Wireless ...
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Windows 7 Homegroup with ess 4.0
I am trying to setup a homegroup between two win7 computers, and apparently my Eset Security Service is blocking the traffic. When I disable the firewall on both computers the homegroup works fine.
Is ...
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How to see between windows 7 professional and enterprise machines?
I've got a desktop system running Windows 7 Professional and a laptop running windows 7 Enterprise in a domain-joined computer and I need to copy around 50 GB of files from the Enterprise machine to ...
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Why does copying a backup folder over HomeGroup say 0 bytes?
Why does copying a windows backup folder to a different computer using HomeGroup look like this? What I mean is, it says its 0 bytes, and the speed is 0 bytes per second, I don't understand how this ...
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Windows XP joining Windows 7 homegroup
How my computer which is running Windows XP can join my laptop's homegroup which is running Windows 7?
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Why did I lose the Internet connection after making a home group?
I have two computers in my house. They are;
laptop with Windows 7 Home Basic
desktop with Windows 7 Home Premium
I use internet which is of wired connection and it has a modem. The modem has 1 LAN ...
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How to access shared folders on a Windows homegroup computer from Raspbmc?
Consider the case where Raspbmc (Raspberry Pi media center) is connected to a home wireless router. There are many computers also connected to the home wireless router and they are on a Windows ...
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Windows 7 printer sharing without homegroups?
Me and my sibling have windows 7 computers. I set up a homegroup and one the other computer it shows that I created a homegroup and asks for the password.
I've tried various times to change the ...
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My printer sharing in windows 7 has stopped
I have a wireless home network with 2 Windows 7 machines. I have created a homegroup which they are both part of. I shared the printer from the desktop and some files, and this all worked fine for ...
