Windows 11 Disable Homegroup
Rapheal Charlton
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If you access services.msc as a standard user, only one service is shown and it can only be stopped, nit disabled. When I ran as administrator, I was able to shut down both services. The homegroup icon is no longer shown in the navigator. Thank you for this tip!
Did not realize what I was doing and after creating and joining a Homegroup it messes with my network big time (NAS and other computers go missing). I can not leave this homegroup now. When I try I get an error. I tried disabling the two services and then to leave but same error message. How do I get rid of Homegroup so my Network works like it used to??
I finally gave up the ghost of XP (only because I began having trouble with websites), found Windows 10 completely unusable, and have installed Windows 7 pro 64-bit as a last ditch effort to see if MS made a halfway usable OS after XP.
The machines are all reporting that Automatic Updates have been disabled by Group Policy. However, there are no policies set up on the domain that control Automatic Updates. I ran a gpresult on one of the machines and the report does not contain any information suggesting the Automatic Update settings have been changed.
The machines do appear to be updating themselves, however, Windows Update reporting that updates are disabled is an issue as we can't install anything from the Microsoft Store as it stated that Windows Update is turned off.
I have done just that. Configure Automatic Updates is set to Disabled. And yet, it still automatically downloads updates and wants you to do a restart. The reason I have been trying to stop update is because: When Windows attempts to install 22H2, it goes through the update paces, does a restart, continues updating, then at 99% it says there is a Windows Error and updates will be undone. So I have to wait and wait for that process. This problem has gone on for 17 months now. I have tried every Microsoft fix out there and nothing fixes this. I even increased my MBR to 1000GB because they were so confident that was the issue. Well, it wasn't. Didn't work. Nothing from Microsoft works and I'm just tired of Microsoft BUGS taking up my time.
@Bartb395 Change your primary hard drive's partitioning scheme from GPT to MBR That will prevent the update to 22H2, as version 22H2 is only compatible with a GPT drive. Converting the partitioning scheme is easy to do, and can be done while in windows. Just open CMD with administrator privileges, and proceed to type the commands. This video below, should help you convert your primary drive to MBR without any data loss.
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Of course, make sure you instruct the system to convert your selected drive MBR and not GPT.
Thanks urbanchaos for the reply. Sorry to get to you late on this. I cannot perform the task you recommended because my primary partition is already set to MBR (always has been). You said that 22H2 is only compatible with GPT partitions and thus would "prevent" the update for 22H2, but that appears not to be true (since it is trying to install 22H2 with an MBR primary partition). However, could this incompatibility be the initial problem? And as 22H2 is not being prevented, that yet may be a second issue. Should I go the other route and convert "TO" GPT on the primary partition?
Just had the same issue after changing the Home Shared library name. I tried the suggestion of turning off/resetting the router, but it didn't work. What did work was to turn off the apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.)? After turning them back on I made sure to verify they were on the same wifi network as the computer housing iTunes. Then I went into Apple Video app on my Apple devices and clicked on the Share tab. There I could see the iTunes Home Share name I assigned. I clicked on it and it began connecting. Done! I believe the issue does have something to do with resetting the network connection, but turning off/resetting the router didn't work for me. Turning off the device did. Hope this helps.
(4) The iPad then takes me to a screen with "Shared" as the heading and prompts me to select either "Dan's iPad" (obviously the local music on the iPad itself) or "Mac Mini" iTunes library. Success there. The iPad is detecting there is a Mac Mini/iTunes Home Sharing library. See first screenshot below.
(5) I select the Mac Mini/iTunes library. The spinning circle (loading circle I guess you'd call it?) then starts spinning indicating the iPad is attempting to connect/load the Mac Mini iTunes library.
Sometimes, for me to even try again (because the Shared screen is no longer selectable), I have to turn wifi off then on again on my Mac Mini because the "Shared" icon in the Music app on my iPad has now disappeared (following step 7). See below, the "Sharing" icon is no longer there.
Tried everything I can think of. Uninstall, re-boot, port opening, IpV6 disable, confirmed windows homegroup settings, Itunes homesharing on, correct name and password, run diagnostics through itunes, turned off firewall, changed router security settings, nothing changes.
I popped into work this morning, where I have exactly the same router, same model number, shared folder visibale, click on it and it loads fully on to Iphone and am able to play from it with no problems.
To those experiencing the same problem, do what I did (a helpful Apple tech actually talked me through this on the phone so I can't take all the credit...I also can't believe I didn't think to do it myself).
Set up a wifi hotspot using your 3G phone/ios device and connect your PC/mac and all other devices to that network instead of the one being generated by your router. You basically need to remove the router from the whole situation to see if it actually is a router issue. Process of elimination!
Now as per my first post, I tinkered with everything I could see relating to firewall settings in my router to no avail so I bit the bullet and performed a factory reset of my router and set it up, as if for the first time.
I jumped into the router settings to see what was different and all I noticed was a speed setting you could nominate for your network (a setting I hadn't even thought would make a difference!). I'd had it set to 300mbs before the reset and after resetting, it defaulted to 140mbs (or thereabouts).
Today for no reason, I'm having this problem again. When I try to get onto my home library via my iPad, the status circle hangs at various points - sometimes it gets about a quarter of the way, sometimes halfway, sometimes all the way to three-quarters, but then it just stops and I can't share my library.
I saw, Tommyp40, that you were able to fix the issue by "changing your router." I"m a complete computer moron so I have no idea what you mean by that or how you go about doing it. Would you mind helping me out and walking me through the steps of how to make the change you did in order to get your home sharing to work?
I don't know when this problem started, but I cannot turn on iTunes sharing on any of my iOS devices. I can share my Library on both my AppleTV (3rd gen) and my wife's MacBook Pro, but not on my iPhone 5, iPad 3, or her iPhone 4s. Since I can share the Library with some devices, there is no way that I have something wrong on my Mac or my router-- the problem must lie on my iOS devices. I have logged out and back into my iTunes account to no avail. My computer uses Mavericks (10.9.3), while hers is running Mountain Lion (10.8.6). All iOS devices are running iOS 7.1.1.
I have McAfee internet security program on my computer. When I run this program and go to McAfee Internet Security >> Preference >> Firewall >> Internet Connection ..... and change my network setting from Public to Home/Office, the problem resolved.
In my family house we have 3 laptops owned by different people. I have an 6830 printer that i use for scanning and printing on more expoensive paper. I'd like to restrict access to the one windows 7 laptop that has the printer softeare installed on in.
I'm assuming that as two of my 3 computers are part of a home group that this printer would be listed their under users but it is not. Turning off file and printer sharing also stops me sharing my files via my homegroup. When i turn it on, the printer is not there. I think i would expect to see it listed under users but i may be wrong of course.
It was my hope that i could restrict access to the printer for only those computers that are in my homegroup, if not then i was hoping there may be a pin facility on the printer to allow only certain people to use it or failing that i may speak to microsoft to see if i can restrict access to the printer only to my homegroup.
Thank you very much for all of your efforts. I think i will have to employ that method until something else comes to light or i plug the printer right into my chosen laptop. I thijk you suggetsion is the best.
I think my printer has a facility whereby it is possible to print wirelessly and directly to the printer rather than via the router. If this is possible then it may give me a better solution and greater control of who can access the printer. Thanks once again for being so supportive and inspirational.
You see originaly i posted the question with Microsoft Answers because i thought one solution woul dbe windows based. As you may know the timeless solution for this is to physically plug the printer into my chosen laptop. That would work and is the best actual solution.
I have been aware for some time of printing using wifi direct. So after deleting the printer from both mhy laptops and resting the net work settings i activiated wifi direct and connected the printer directly to my laptop therby bypassing my household router and access for all the family.
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