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Want my advice, get rid of bit defender and all other AV software. In the end, they cause more problems than they solve. The fact that you installed Bit Defender after you got your Homegroup up and running was obviously a mistake. No fault on anyone's part, really just typical AV behavior.
The post above about having to change the registry settings proves my point. I certainly did not need to do any of that in order to use Homegroup networking on any of my machines. It's worked absolutely flawlessy since day one in fact.
There is no way on earth that the default registry settings would have this value incorrect unless the user installed something, such as an AV product, to set it that way in the first place. When you change that registry setting you are only undoing what your AV software has done.
The Op is unknowningly solving his own problem by saying this> Quote: I bought BitDefebder for all 3 computers the day after that, meaning the day after he set up Homegroup. Hmmm and then the next day Homegroups suddenly stopped working? I mean come on people, how obvious is this?
I think we need to get off the blaming Windows 7 for mystery problems bus and get back to reality here.