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Setting up Homegroup in Windows 7

I am not sure how many hours I have spent trying to connect my two computers to the same homegroup, but I finally managed to do it. Problem is I don't think I can explain how I did it since it could have been many actions on the way that finally made it work.

However the problem I faced at first was the fact that my two PCs used different Windows 7 RC versions and my desktop PC is wired through a broadband router whilst my laptop (Acer Aspire One) unwired via wifi. I tried to google if it was even possible to connect them despite the different OS versions and connections, without any luck.

My laptop did find the homegroup set up on my desktop, but windows wouldn't allow me to connect to it. I had a custom password but as soon as I changed it to the system generated password, my laptop suddenly connected. Joy! If this little change was the only thing to make it work, I don't know, or if it was the number of reboots, changing names, resets of network adapters or disablings of 3rd party firewalls, I can't say. But the firewalls could have been an issue. My desktop runs with a beta version of Kaspersky and my laptop Comodo. Earlier I disabled both firewalls and enabled the Windows one instead.

But at the end of the day, the one thing I did was to go with the system password and it all worked. Perhaps luch or perhaps, as simple as that.

 

 

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