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  • Windows 7 Tips – Exit Home group

    Cannot Leave Home group in Windows 7! What to do Next?

    In case you want to leave one of the home groups on your system and are unable to do so, you will most probably end up with the following prompt: “Windows couldn’t remove your computer from the homegroup“. This tip focuses on helping you resolve this issue.


     
    This can happen due to several reasons, 2 of the most prominent reasons are homegroup service or dll files issue. 

    Following are the steps that can help you out:

    Open homegroup troubleshooter (Start the HomeGroup troubleshooter option) to troubleshoot the problem first before trying the options shown below.


    1) As usual, go to Start and click on Control Panel.

    2) Control Panel window will appear, click on System and Security.

    3) Proceed to click on Administrative Tools.

    4) Double click on Services in Administrative tools window.

    5) Locate following 2 services, right click each service and then stop it, after that try to leave homegroup again. Hope this helps.
    Note: Please note you can only see HomeGroup Listener service if you do not log on as administrator. If you can only see HomeGroup Provider service, stop this service and try to leave the homegroup.
    HomeGroup Listener
    HomeGroup Provider

    Note: If you still fail to leave the homegroup with above approach, try to rename the following file and try again. Probably the file is corrupted. You can try by clicking Start the HomeGroup troubleshooter option again on homegroup window too.

  • Delete or Leave Homegroup – Windows 7 Tips


    INFORMATION:

     
    This article will show you how to delete or leave homegroup in Windows 7, so that you could stop library, document, media file or other sharing with other users on homegroup. 




    HERE’S HOW:

    Following are the step-by-step instructions to leave the homegroup:
    1) Go to Start and click on Control Panel.
    2) Proceed to click Choose homegroup and sharing options in Control Panel window.

    3) Homegroup window will appear, scroll down and click Leave the homegroup

    4) You can then click on Leave the homegroup option on Leave the Homegroup window. If you change you mind, you can then select other options.
    Note: If you click Don’t leave, but change what I’m sharing option, you can then enable or disable what you have shared.

    5) Wait for a while and your computer will then leave the homegroup. In addition, all user accounts on your computer also leave the homegroup.

  • Windows 7 Tips – Recover Home Group Password

    Quick Way to View Home group Password in Windows 7

    You might have forgotten your home group password if you created it some time ago. if this is the case, we might be able to help you with this.



    1) As usual, go to Start and click on Control Panel.
    2) Proceed to click Choose home group and sharing options in Control Panel window.
    Note: You can also locate this same option in Network and Sharing Center window.

    3) Change homegroup settings window will appear, go ahead to click View or print the homegroup password.

    4) Your homegroup password will then be shown, so you just need to write it down and share with other users, so that they could join the homegroup later. If you want, you can even click Print this page button to print the password.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    How To Disable or Enable the Homegroup Feature in Windows 7
    Have you ever used the Homegroup feature in Windows 7? It’s a great way to share files and printers with all your Windows 7 computers, but if you don’t want it anymore, you can disable or enable the feature easily.
    Disable the Homegroup Feature in Windows 7
    The first thing you’ll want to do is open up Windows Explorer, right-click on the Homegroup option in the left-hand pane, and then choose Change HomeGroup settings.
    At the bottom of the window, you’ll find an option called “Leave the homegroup”, which you should click.
    Now you’ll be presented with a wizard asking you to confirm that you really want to leave the homegroup.
    This disables the homegroup, but doesn’t remove it from the navigation pane.
    Remove Homegroup from the Navigation Pane
    Next, you’ll want to open up services.msc in the start menu search box, or just find it through Control Panel. Find HomeGroup Listener in the list, and double-click on it.
    Change the Startup type to Disabled, and click the Stop button to stop the service. Once you’re done with that, you’ll need to disable the Homegroup Provider service in the same way.
    At this point you’ll notice that it’s gone from the navigation pane.
    How to Enable Homegroup Again
    First, you’ll want to enable the service again—head back into services.msc, find the HomeGroup Listener and set it to automatic. Next, head into Control Panel –> Network and Internet, and then click on HomeGroup.

    Then, simply click on the Create a Homegroup button, and follow the prompts. If your button says Join a homegroup, follow that wizard instead.

  • Home group password recovery in Windows 7

                So you’re about to setup your new Windows 7 PC into your Homegroup when you realized that you have no idea what the password is. How do you find it? It’s actually pretty simple, if you know where to look.


    Finding Your Homegroup Password

    Open up Windows Explorer, and then find the Homegroup option in the left-hand navigation pane. Right-click on Homegroup and choose “View the HomeGroup password”


    And there you go, your password in nice bold text—and there’s even a print button.


    Now you have the password and you are all set to setup your home group network

  • How to Open a Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 7

    Information
    This tutorial will show you how to open a elevated command prompt with administrator rights (Run as administrator) instead of the default command prompt without administrator rights in Windows 7. This tutorial is not applicable to windows XP
    EXAMPLE: 
    Elevated Command Prompt
    NOTE: 
    Notice how the elevated command prompt opens to C:\Windows\System32 and not C:\Users\(user name) as the default command prompt without administrator rights.
    Here’s How:
    1. Use a Elevated Command Prompt shortcut.
    OR
    2. Open the Start Menu.
    3. Click on All Programs and Accessories, then right click on Command Prompt and click on Run as administrator. (See screen shot below)
    OR
    4. Open the Start Menu.
    5. In the Start Menu search box area, type cmd and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.
    OR
    6. Open the Start Menu.
    7. In the Start Menu search box area type cmd, then right click on cmd (at top), and click on Run as administrator. (See screen shot below)
    Tip
    If you are in a administrator account and get a log in prompt after doing any of the above steps, then click on the Cancel button and repeat the above step again. This will only do this for the very first time you try to open a elevated command prompt in Windows 7.
    If you are in a standard account, then you will need to type in the administrator’s password to elevate the command prompt.

  • How to Create a New Partition or Volume in Windows 7

    Information
    This tutorial will show you how to create a new primary partition using Disk Management or Diskpart in Windows 7 from a empty unallocated partition or volume.
    Note
    A primary partition is a type of partition created on a hard drive that can have a operating system installed on it. A primary partition functions as though it were a physically separate hard drive. By default on a MBR disk, you can create a maximum of 3 Primary partitions and 1 Extended partition with up to 128 logical volumes in the extended partition on a single hard disk.
    *You must be logged on in an administrator account to be able to do this tutorial.
    ***Warning***
    If you disable the Disk Defragmenter service, then you will get the error below when you try to do anything in Disk Management. If you get this error, then make sure that the Disk Defragmenter service is set to only Manual.
    OPTION ONE
    Using Disk Management
    1. You will first need to shrink a partition or volume from the free space on a disk to create unallocated space on that disk to use to create the new partition or volume with on the same disk.
    2. Open the Control Panel (All Items view), and click on the Administrative Tools icon. then close the Control Panel window.
    3. Click on Computer Management in Administrative Tools, then close the Administrative Tools window.
    4. In the left pane under Storage, click on Disk Management. (See screenshot below)
    5. In the middle pane, right click on the empty unallocated partition or volume and click on New Simple Volume. (See screenshot below)
    6. Click on the Next button. (See screenshot below)
    7. Type in how many MB (1 GB = 1024 MB) you want to use from the unallocated partition to create the new partition with, then click on the Next button. (See screenshot below)
    NOTE:
    If you want to use all of the unallocated partition to create the new partition with, then type all of the maximum disk space shown for the unallocated partition. If you do not use all of the maximum disk space, then you can use the left over space from the unallocted partition to create another new partition with.
    8. Select an available drive letter that you want to be assigned to the new partition in Computer, then click on the Next button. (See screenshot below)
    9. Type in a volume label name that you want for the new partition, check the Perform a quick format box, and click on the Next button. (See screenshot below)
    10. Click on the Finish button. (See screenshot below)
    11. The new primary partition or volume has now been created with the assigned unallocted partition space (step 7). (See screenshot below)
    12. Close the Computer Management window. (See screenshot above)

    Note:



    This method can also be used in Windows Xp and Windows Vista

    OPTION TWO

    Using Diskpart in a Elevated Command Prompt
    1. You will first need to shrink a partition or volume to create a unallocated partition to use to create the new partition or volume with.
    2. Open a elevated command prompt, or a command prompt at boot.
    3. In the elevated command prompt, type diskpart and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
    4. In the elevated command prompt, type list disk and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
    NOTE:
    This is to help you ID the disk number that has Free unallocated space that you want to create a new partition with. For example, Disk 1 with 80 GB of free space.
    5. In the elevated command prompt, type select disk # and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
    NOTE:
    You would substitute # for the disk number listed that you want to create a new partition with the free unallocated space there. For example, I want to create a new partition with the 80 GB of free space, so I would type select disk 2 and press Enter.
    6. In the elevated command prompt, type create partition primary and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
    NOTE:
    This will create a new blank RAW partition with selected disk (step 5) that contains the unallocated partition free space.
    7. In the elevated command prompt, type list volume and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
    NOTE:
    Look for the volume number that has the same Size as from the Free space in step 4. For example, Volume 3.
    8. To Format the Partition or Disk as a NTFS File System
    NOTE:
    This would be good for using with Windows 7 or Vista for example.
    A) In the elevated command prompt, type format fs=ntfs quick and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
    NOTE:
    Having quick added at the end of the command will do a quick format instead of a full format on the new blank RAW partition (step 6) to make it a new partition.
    B) Go to step 10.
    9. To Format the Partition or Disk as a FAT32 File System
    NOTE:
    This would be good for using with a USB key drive for example.
    A) In the elevated command prompt, type format fs=fat32 quick and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
    NOTE:
    Having quick added at the end of the command will do a quick format instead of a full format on the new blank RAW partition (step 6) to make it a new partition.
    10. When it is finished formatting, type exit in the elevated command prompt and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
    11. Close the elevated command prompt.
    12. The new primary partition has now been created. You can now see the new partition in Computer with a drive letter.

    Note:


    This method can also be used in Windows Xp and Windows Vista

  • How to Create a Homegroup in Windows 7


    HomeGroup makes your job easy to share pictures, music, documents, videos, and printers with other people on your home network. This article will show you how to create a homegroup in Windows 7.
    Note
    Computers must be running Windows 7 to participate in a homegroup. HomeGroup is available in all editions of Windows 7. In the Windows 7 Starter and Windows 7 Home Basic editions, you can join a homegroup, but you can’t create one.
    If your computer belongs to a domain network, you can join a homegroup but you can’t create one. You can access files and resources on other homegroup computers, but you can’t share your own files and resources with the homegroup.
    All computers that will be on the homegroup must have (be on) the same workgroup or domain name.
    You can create or join a Homegroup with a virtual machine in Windows Virtual PC.
    Warning
    You will need to have these Services set as below. They are by default.
    DNS Client – Started and Automatic
    HomeGroup Listener – Started and Manual
    HomeGroup Provider – Started and Manual
    SSDP Discovery – Started and Manual
    UPnP Device Host – Started and Manual
    Function Discovery Provider Host – Started and Manual
    Function Discovery Resource Publication – Started and Automatic
    Network List Service – Started and Manual
    Server – Started and Automatic
    Here’s How:
    NOTE:  
    The homegroup created here as an example was done between a laptop (joined homegroup) with a wireless connection through a wireless router and a desktop (created homegroup in) connected to the same router’s ethernet port via CAT6 cable.
    1. Make sure that all computers that will be on the home network have the date and time in sync.
    2. Make sure that the computer is set to have a home network location type. You will not be able to create a homegroup from any other network locations.
    3. If you are using a wireless network through a wireless router, then check to make sure that WLAN Partition is disabled in the router’s wireless settings. When it is enabled, it prevents associated wireless clients from communicating with each other.
    4. Open the Control Panel (all items view), and click on the Network and Sharing Center icon.
    A) Click on the Change adapter settings link. 
    B) Right click on your network connection adapter, and click on Properties. If prompted by UAC, then click on Yes. Make sure that the items below are checked, and click on OK. (see screenshot below)
    File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
    Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)
    Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
    C) Click on the back arrow button (left arrow) in Network Connections to return to the Network and Sharing Center. (See screenshot above)
    D) Click on the Change advanced sharing settings link.
    E) Make sure that the Home or Work (current profile) settings are set as they are below for the ones pointed out with the red arrows, then click on save changes. If prompted by UAC, then click on Yes. 
    5. In the Network and Sharing Center, click on the Choose homegroup and sharing options link. 

    6. Click on the Create a homegroup button. (see screenshot below)
    NOTE: 
     If a homegroup already exists (already created) on your home network, then Windows 7 will ask if you would like to Join Now instead of creating a new one.
     
    7. Select (check) what libraries and printers that you want to share from this computer with any other computer that joins this homegroup, then click on Next. (see screenshot below)
    8. Write down and/or print this password down. You will need to have and use this password to join a computer to this homegroup. Click on Finish. (See screenshot below)
    NOTE: The password is case sensitive, so it will need to be typed exactly as it appears here when used to join a computer to the homegroup.
    9. Close the HomeGroup window. (see screenshot below)
    10. You will now need to add other computers to the homegroup by joining them so that you can access shared libraries and printers between them.