Comments on: How to disable or enable HomeGroup feature in Windows 7 https://pureinfotech.com/how-to-disable-or-enable-homegroup-feature-in-windows-7/ Pureinfotech is the best site to get Windows help – featuring friendly how-to guides on Windows 10, Windows 11, Xbox, and other things tech, news, deals, reviews, and more. Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:10:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: mhweb https://pureinfotech.com/how-to-disable-or-enable-homegroup-feature-in-windows-7/#comment-411 Sat, 28 May 2011 15:03:00 +0000 http://pureinfotech.com/?p=10814#comment-411 In reply to Lee Oleary.

Hello Lee Oleary, first and foremost thank you for leaving your comment.
Now, as far as I know disabling Windows 7’s Homegroup feature should not cause any problems, if that was the case you have found a big bug that Microsoft should have to fix!
I think that you will have to check what other security software have installed in your system that may be causing a problem.
You could try reverting the Homegroup process and see if that fix the problem after that you could also try to use system restore point https://pureinfotech.com/2011/02/18/learn-how-to-use-system-restore-point-in-windows-7/ to revert your system to the time you know it was working OK.
I have disable Homegroup for a while now and so far everything seems to be working fine.
Anyways I will keep you post it if I found something else that could help you.

Thanks again!
PS: I hope this helps a little.

]]> By: Lee Oleary https://pureinfotech.com/how-to-disable-or-enable-homegroup-feature-in-windows-7/#comment-408 Sat, 28 May 2011 06:21:00 +0000 http://pureinfotech.com/?p=10814#comment-408 Iv’e become aware recently through my machines behaviour, that Disabling Windows 7’s Homegroup feature “may” cause vulnerabilities within Microsoft’s virtual file system (UAC – or so it seems, although I am not in any way an expert! and may be completely wrong!) My PC has suffered from a number of noticeable strange behaviours with some essential Windows services and Updates failing regularly. Do you happen to know whether when you have disabled Homegroup, that it may be possible, for user policies and how they are maintained could become compromised. On Technet recently I read a post from somebody who had asked about a problem he had with MS Installer 4, the reply concluded that the guy had lost all permissions to a number of his system folders (ie/ User/appdata/local/temp/ etc..), the technician replying admitted that he didn’t know how this could happen or why, and the fix used a the a command line tool to reassert ownership through uac’s dos commands – It’s a fascinating topic, and the removal of password protected media and printer sharing on a home network should be without risk to the PC’s stability, but I have noticed that ownership of folders is being compromised to the point where it may be compromising other services and modules that may depend on being able to read/write file or folder info.. Please tell me what you think, user account control, is great – if it can’t be confused by subtle system changes. Does this any make sense or am I talking complete gibberish, do you recognise any of what I’ve mentioned. I look forward to hearing what others think.

PS. Nice site. I will make a donation later as soon as I can get to my bank later today.

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