Homegroup - Add or Remove from Navigation Pane

Brink · 25 Aug 2012

Yep, this one is not working properly on Windows 8 yet.

Bare Foot Kid · 25 Aug 2012

Brink said:

Yep, this one is not working properly on Windows 8 yet.

Thanks mate, I guess I'll go set the values back to default just to be on the safe side.

ksdixon · 06 Nov 2012

I'm in Windows 8 too (Pro, x86 due to upgrading an older OEM PC), and I pulled up Services and disabled the two HomeGroup services. After a restart HomeGroup has not reappeared in my windows explorer left navigation pane.

Brink · 06 Nov 2012

Hello lilsting,

That will do fine as long as you do not want to create or join a Homegroup. :)

Conditioned · 20 Mar 2013

Any chance of automating this? How do you change perms in batched in the registrY?

Brink · 20 Mar 2013

Hello Conditioned,

I'll add it to the list to look into, and post back if I'm able to get it to work properly. :)

speedgamer01 · 24 Oct 2013

I'd like to add an alternative way of removing homegroup :)

b33z · 09 Feb 2014

Perfect! didn't even have to restart!

cheers!

xFiReStOrMx · 13 Mar 2016

speedgamer01 said:

I'd like to add an alternative way of removing homegroup :)

The way provided on here is pretty simple, but yeah no doubt that way is for sure much easier and quicker and you are disabling the services too, but I am not sure if the method provided on here would have done that also.

Either way thanks to all!

BuckSkin · 08 Jan 2018

I have all of our machines in a Homegroup, but I never use the Homegroup in the navigation pane to access any of them; I always just use the Network.

That being said, if I remove Homegroup from the navigation pane, will it disable the Homegroup; and, if so, will it affect my Network abilities ?

Thanks for reading.