homegroup

Can some kind person tell me how to stop the Homegroup Icon coming up on my desktop,sometimes it is not there for a couple of weeks then it suddenly reappears i do not have a Homegroup has I only have the one laptop,I have got fed up with it popping up in the middle of my icons.running Windows...

I recently built a new PC and now none of my computers can see each other on the Homegroup. We all have the same Workgroup name and are connected to the same network. The new PC was able to create a Homegroup, but the other ones cannot leave the Homegroup that they were a part of and files still...

For many months I have been successfully running a homegroup where my W8.1 laptop PC connects wirelessly to my Vista Desktop. However I am now getting the 0x80070035 error when I try to access the Vista PC from the W8.1 PC. I can still successfully access the W8.1 PC from the Vista PC. Can...

I am trying to remove 'Homegroup' as it is not needed and my Internet and Outlook wont open until that icon appears on my desktop and that takes a couple of extra minutes after everything else is ready. I followed the instructions below. But when I click on 'Leave the Homegroup' I get a...

Okay, I'm not sure of all my tech specs, but I can figure something out if needed. Windows 7 and an arris router. My situation is this: my pc is in my upstairs bedroom, and I want to watch things in my downstairs living room. I have Wow cable, and my cable box connects to my homegroup, and...

Hi there, I have a desktop running Windows 7 and a laptop running Windows 8, I am also in a homegroup. Now I want to be able to share my hard drive on both computers with each other but not allow anyone else to view it. I would also like to allow read and write access for both computers too. How...

Hi there, I have a desktop running Windows 7 and a laptop running Windows 8, I am also in a homegroup. Now I want to be able to share my hard drive on both computers with each other but not allow anyone else to view it. I would also like to allow read and write access for both computers too. How...

I have 2 laptops...... 1. Running Win 8.1 Pro solely. 2. Running dual boot Win 7 and Win 10 TP Enterprise 9879. All 3 OSs have joined the home group. My problem is........ Win 8.1 and Win 10 can see each other as well as Win 7, BUT Win 7 can't see them. I had read some time ago that Win 7 can...

I have a network consisting of three machines. All of them have Windows 7 Ultimate, One of them is a 32 bits Desktop PC, the others are two 64 bits laptops. I installed all three machines using the same configuration other than the Windows 7 x64 and x32 settings. I'll name them PC, laptop 1 and...

I am trying to create a homegroup with my Windows 7 desktop and my Windows 8.1 laptop. I am able to see the laptop shared files on my desktop but cannot see a map on my laptop for the desktop. I am using the same homegroup password for both and don't really know how to do this. Any help will be...

Hey, I have created a homegroup in windows 8. I know the password, but I don't know the username it asks when I try to connect it from my iOS through Windows Samba/Share. I didn't add any username when creating homegroup. So I looked up on the internet and tried some suggestions like Account...

I've been using windows8.1 for 6 months now. Tonight I found this thing worry me much. under NETWORK icon in winodws file explorer, go down to computer name, profile name and the folder searches I found an icon named "search everyplaces" like folder or file or symbolic link, when I click on it...

I have read all the tutorials online and keep getting hung up at one part. I right clicked a folder in Windows 8 and chose "share with homegroup" I then went on the Mac and went to "Connect to server" and entered the PCs IP It then came up with a login box but nothing works in the password...

I'm running Windows 7 on HP Pavillion. I'm having trouble with family account showing devices and printers window with items in it, just a blank screen. See attachment. My administration side of accounts shows the items in window. See attachment. I created a new account call Test and it shows...

Windows 8.1 Networking I have the following home network configuration: Dell XPS27 with Win 8.1,Netgear WNDR4500v2 wireless router,Networked AVR, networked DirectTV, several android phones on WIFI, and a post XP laptop running Crunchbang Linux. Everything works fine. Networked music, internet...

My three PC's are all in homegroup, but when i do "msg * text" the message only goes to the PC thats sends .. for example .. if from my laptop i do that cmd .. the msg only returns to me .. why my other PC's dont get the message? - they are on the same network and in homegroup whats up?

So bassicaly i have created a homegroup on my Desktop PC, and one of my laptops is already in the group but the other wont find the homegroup .. from laptop2 when i go to control panel > network and net > network and sharing center ... there is no button join ... in place of join there is...

some solfare or fault occured and left these problems the hards drive has benn scanned for fauts and and virus I have tries so mant w fixes and suggestions I think these are all related to one problem with w7 1 sfc/ scanno wil not operate even cold boot method , same result serurity...

New 8.1 laptop. Whenever I try to map network a windows 7 drive in my laptop to windows 8.1 laptop I get the following error that the spelling may not be correct(but this is not true). Can't find "Link Removed" May be spelling?? I have checked the spelling finding no problems and I have opened...

why cant i send message on my other PC via Cmd prompt? um using "msg user-pc akwdawdawd" but it always says user-pc does not exist or is disconnected.. why?! the PC's are on same network and plus in homework/homegroup... whats up?