Thursday, December 16, 2010

More Win 7 Network Problems Solved

If you have done everything you can think of to get the Homegroup going here is a couple more to do....

Make sure these services are set to automatic....here's how


Windows 7 Services In order for the HomeGroup networking feature to be working, there are certain Windows services that need to be enabled and running. If you used a program to disable services or manually disabled them, it may be causing the problem.
The services that need to be turned on are listed below:
  • DNS Client
  • Function Discovery Provider Host
  • Function Discovery Resource Publication
  • Peer Networking Grouping
  • HomeGroup Provider
  • HomeGroup Listener
  • SSDP Discovery
  • UPnP Device Host
You can turn on the services by clicking on Start and typing in “services” and then clicking on Services.
turn on services
In the Services dialog, double-click on the service and make sure the Startup type is set to Automatic and click Start to turn on the service.
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