homegroup

My home network has XP Vista and W7 so I never bothered with Home Group. Are W7 and W8 Home Groups compatible? Just curious really. Joe

I have two Win 7 x64 machines. They are on the same homegroup and are physically plugged into the same switch. Each machine can see the other on the network, no problem. Machine 2 can See and access shared folders on Machine 1, no problem' Machine 1 can see the Machine 2, but whenever it...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium, 32bit laptop. So this started with my accidentally deleting the 'My Documents'. At the time of deleting, i think it showed, My Documents is too large for recycle bin. That's why i can't find it there. (I have tried 'Recuva' to recover deleted files, but...

I have two computers - both in the same Homegroup. They both show up in my network map - but I don't know how to allow access to each from the other one. Also, I have a networked printer which does not show in the map. Shouldn't it? It works from both computers.

Is there way I can change the location of the backup files location using the Win7 Backup Manager? Right now it just shows me the location for a USB port. I would like to use a Home Group Location. Thanks,' Art Lorenzini

Hi - have 1 computer operating 7 ultimate and 1 operating home premium cannot connect to the laptop under home premium. On the laptop when i go into change homegroup settings all boxes except printers are un-ticked. When I tick all the boxes then 'save changes' all seems ok until I go into...

Dell Studio Desktop Computer Windows 7 SP1 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Netgear DG834 Modem/Router I have a problem with my home network that I have been trying to solve for weeks. Hopefully someone will be able to help (thanks in advance). Windows 7 reports that I have no network...

I have a laptop running W7 Home Premium SP-1 and a Netbook running W7 Starter SP-1. They both belong to a Homegroup named 'HOMEGROUP1.' I would like to know how to enable each computer full access to all files and folders and printers on each other. If you can, please direct me to a...

Hello, I am have a torrid tome trying to figure this one out. I have just bought a new Samsung notebook and cant get some of the other computers on the network to view the shared library folders. There are three computers on the Homegroup (ie all windows 7) lets call them Samsung, Acer...

I have an HP desktop running windows basic 7. I also have an HP laptop running windows basic 7. I have a samsung wifi compatible divx player. I have the two computers networked together, and they communicate and do everything together that I need them to do. I have some videos I ripped on my...

Hi All Im having serious problems connecting Win7 Home premium 32bit to my WLAN. This connection previously worked fine under XP. Win 7 Fully patched Windows home Group services disabled. WPA-Personal b/g channel 11 enabled on router WN is broadcasting and WIN 7 sees the network Router F/W is...

--- Issue I can't seem to get Laptop and Desktop to be able to join the same Homegroup even if both have the same password in for both computers. I can create home groups on both computers but I can't find a homegroup to join from either computer. --- I have Windows 7 on my desktop on my home...

Dear Support Professionals, I have two computers. Each has Windows 7 Ultimate. On the main computer I clicked START and then CONTROL PANEL. Under NETWORK & INTERNET I selected CHOOSE HOMEGROUP AND SHARING OPTIONS. At this point the system recognized that this computer already has a homegroup...

Our desktop is connected to a broadband cable modem. We have a wifi router connected to the broadband cable modem as well. We have 3 laptops all connected via the wifi router and these laptops can connect each other via the homegroup network. However, our desktop cannot connect to a laptop...

Does anyone know of a true, authentic, network diagnostic utility for Windows 7. The script provided by Microsoft was written by 1st graders as a project. I need to know why I can see and detect my laptop, but I can't connect to it. Both system use Win 7 Pro x64, and are part of the same...

[ Solved ] Making a Folder Public Edit: This may or may not be better suited in the Networking forums, if it should be there, could a mod move it please? Thanks. Is it possible to make a specific folder in my Win7 installation public? I already have network sharing set-up between my Desktop and...

Found a few instances close, but not exactly matching my situation. For the instances which are close, none of the already suggested solutions seem to work. Here's the specifics. Have 4 "new" computers (bought in the last year). I would love to be able to "homegroup" them. Each one runs...

As the title says, when I boot my machine, the LanmanServer service gets stuck during startup. While this is happening, the OS is basically dead, and any attempt to do anything that involves loading from the HDD will lock up until the service finally starts, which can take upwards of ten...

Im having trouble connecting to my homegroup with my mac - It sees 2/3 computers I have networked, and I cannot share files/printers with either computers. When I connected to my WIFI network the mac automatically grabbed 2/3 of the needed printers (im assuming off of my homegroup, as they are...

puter says i am in a homegroup but wont display the password or will not let me leave the homegroup. How do you fix this. This is totally frustrating ty