After I rebooted all my network gear and restarted all the PC's the phantom machine was still there and preventing me from doing a new homegroup. Now that a day has passed since the reset, just for kicks, I decided to see if the phantom machine was still there. Low and behold it was gone and...
I didn't have anything to offer him. I was just simply letting others who may happen to browse the thread know that the problem doesn't apparently occur in all cases.
I recently did a new RTM install into a a partition that already had another copy of RTM. It put the old windows in Windows.old. I just held my breath after reading this and did a shift-delete on the windows.old folder. It said deleting 92,805 items. After about a minute - gone ! First try...
I created a homegroup on a W7 RTM machine that I was using for testing. Didnt bother to write down the password because I wasn't planning on using it on another machine at the time. Later I installed a new W7 RTM over the test version. When I try to join a homegroup it wants the password...
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If you are trying to install the MFL-PRO on the Win 7 RC it shouldnt be asking for any service packs. Are you using the Vista drivers? If not you should download them from the Brother website.
You should join in to a related thread I started on a very similar issue. Here is the link...