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No, I really do want to delete my homegroup
I have two machines on my home network that are running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. A month ago, I bought a new hard disk and (yet another) copy of Windows 7 Home Premium, and tried to upgrade my Dell D620, but eventually gave up after struggling to get it to work with my KVM switch (long story there), and reverted back to Windows XP on the Dell.
However, while I was running Win7 on the Dell, I created a Homegroup. At some point after that, in a last ditch attempt to get Windows 7 to play nice with the KVM switch, I re-installed Windows7 from scratch.
Now both of my remaining Win7 machines see the Homegroup that was created, and I have the choice to join it. However, I can't get the password, because it was blown away when I re-installed Windows, and for the same reason I can't delete the Homegroup by Leaving it (since the one computer that's a member no longer exists).
Anybody have any ideas? I'd like to either delete this Homegroup so I can establish a new one, or figure out a way to take it over, but so far I haven't been able to find anything on the web about getting rid of a ghost Homegroup.