HomeGroup and wifi Home Network printer incompatability?

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  1. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #1

    HomeGroup and wifi Home Network printer incompatability?


    Hi all,
    New to Win 7 and have for the past couple of days been searching all over the WWW for answers and solutions to the following. I have been on countless discussion boards and tried everything that has been suggested, but I am no closer to finding solutions.

    1) I am the only person in my household with a win 7 computer, so I would like to remove my laptop from the automatically generated (?) HomeGroup ( I sure did not set it up!) But no matter the suggested fix I end up with the same message: Windows could not remove this computer from the Home Group.

    If there has been a suggested fix out there, i seem to have tried it. No luck.

    My Brother wifi printer has worked just fine with my old laptop, my tablet and my smartphone, and which shows up in Devices and printers as the default, available, online printer, as well as in my network. I have installed and reinstalled the drivers and software 3 times now, and gone through all possible configurations and troubleshooting in addition to googling solutions... still seems unable to communicate with my laptop.

    Which leads me to the following two questions:

    Are HomeGroup and Home Network wifi printing in conflict with each other?
    And does anyone have any proven, recent solutions for how to fix both above described issues?

    Solid leads would be greatly appreciated so that I am able to get some sleep
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  2. Posts : 5,656
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #2

    HomeGroup isn't automatically generated, I have ran my PC without one for 5 years and only recently changed to HomeGroup.

    Have you seen this tutorial yet? Homegroup - Leave
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  3. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Not so fast there! My laptop (Acer Aspire win 7 home premium) is spanking new (1 week old), and unless there is a ghost, I am the only person who has had her hands on it. Like I said I did not set up HomeGroup, so it must have come pre-set up. Unless there is another logical explanation.

    Thank you for link to tutorial. yes- I had tried everything listed there except the very last suggestion: turn router off and then try to leave the HomeGroup.... which I have also now tried and still no luck; see the attached.

    There seem to be a few people like myself out there who have tried all the fixes that work for others, but still have the same issue.

    (Im)Patiently awaiting the magic fix- to both the HomeGroup and wifi printer issues.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails HomeGroup and wifi Home Network printer incompatability?-windows-error-message.png  
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  4. Posts : 5,656
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #4

    It may have come pre-installed because you have OEM PC, yeah. What I tried to say is it is not a default option on a fresh install.

    Anyway, see if the services for creating a HomeGroup are started - Homegroup - Create. Maybe they are needed while leaving too?
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  5. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Thanks for clarifying and suggestions. And for the sake of keep trying to fix this, I went through the check list for settings for setting up HomeGroup. As before, the stumbling block is that the Peer Networking Grouping cannot be started. And the fix for that doesn't work (see screen shots).

    In the last picture the Restart option is not active. Clicking Start did nothing.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails HomeGroup and wifi Home Network printer incompatability?-windows-error-message2.png   HomeGroup and wifi Home Network printer incompatability?-windows-error-message2about.png   HomeGroup and wifi Home Network printer incompatability?-windows-error-message2about2.png   HomeGroup and wifi Home Network printer incompatability?-windows-error-message2about3.png  
    Last edited by acksunny; 20 Aug 2015 at 19:11. Reason: add info
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  6. Posts : 5,656
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #6

    It is right behind the context menu on last screenshot but seems Peer Name Resolution Protocol is Automatic but not started. Right click the Peer Networking Grouping service and switch to Dependencies tab, it will list which other services are needed to be started for this one to start.
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  7. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Thank you for following up on this, GoKay!
    When checking the settings you referred to, I got the following results (see screen shots):

    When trying to leave HomeGroup now, I still receive the message that Windows could not do it.

    Peer Network Identity Manager is already stared and on automatic. Changing it to Manual did not seem to make a difference.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails HomeGroup and wifi Home Network printer incompatability?-peer-networking-grouping-dependencies.png   HomeGroup and wifi Home Network printer incompatability?-peer-name-resoloution-protocol-error-message.png  
    Last edited by acksunny; 21 Aug 2015 at 23:00. Reason: more info supplied
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  8. Posts : 5,656
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #8

    Try restoring that service to defaults - Services - Restore Default Services in Windows 7

    Also run cmd as admin:
    Code:
    sfc /scannow
    Then if corruption is found:
    Code:
    findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log >"%userprofile%\desktop\sfcdetails.txt"
    and attach the sfcdetails.txt here
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  9. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium
    Thread Starter
       #9

    Thanks. So now it's getting a bit technical for me, but I did follow the steps to restore the Peer Name Resolution Protocol (which is what I think seems to be an underlying problem) as outlined in the link below. Still the same error message when trying to "Start" the service that depends on this Protocol.

    Your two other suggestions... I just don't know where I am going with those. Like I said, a bit too technical for me!
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  10. Posts : 5,656
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #10

    In Start Menu search box enter cmd and right click "run as administrator" its icon when listed. Then enter (copy/paste) the first command. Wait until it is finished and if corruption is found, enter the second command. It will create a sfcdetails.txt file on desktop. Attach that one here - Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Seven Forums
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