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homegroup

Sep 25, 2015 5:58PM PDT

i'm running windows 10 pro insider preview evaluation copy 10532 on 1 of these computer and regular windows 10 so this is my problem homegroup in windows 10 on all my computers pints to a computer that no-longer excites on my network because my soon to be ex-wife took said laptop. know I am unable to leave said homegroup or even log into that home group when asked it says that home group doesn't excites any longer their is no leave listed any place for me to leave the group

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go into networking
Sep 25, 2015 6:05PM PDT

and quite the homegroup there.

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i could not find that
Sep 26, 2015 1:28PM PDT

I wasn't able to do that. however for some odd reason I hooked my main desktop straight to Cable Modem I went and checked out home group and I was able to take and make an entirely new home group and i got all computers hooked up that home group right know so things are working right

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so you were using wifi previously?
Sep 28, 2015 7:19PM PDT

should have mentioned it. Wifi has to be setup with the wireless settings on a router, and even then, unless you've allowed wifi access to router settings program, you won't be able to do that except by cable. It's best to NOT allow wifi access to router's settings program.

Any LAN cable connect, since it's as local as it can get, allows access to find homegroups whereas the wifi may have AP set which is a privacy setting in wifi to not allow wifi devices to see each other. Since some are able to share data on wifi, then that setting likely isn't set on your router.

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sounds about right
Sep 29, 2015 3:41AM PDT

I've the WiFi setup on the router because I've smartphones tablets and a Roku device and a few other wireless devise on my network most of the computers and printers are hard line wired thanks this information man I'll try and remember this