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        <title><![CDATA[Homegroup needs to eat hot death and die]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Homegroups need to eat hot death and die. Twenty years of tech experience supporting PCs, and I have yet to figure them out and they are infuriating as ****. XP networking, for all its blemishes, is far superior. At least when you understood how to set it up and got it set up, it worked. XP networking did need some work done on it, but under the hood... and not this total dyslexic disaster (like Windows 8). Worse, there's some kind of blatantly obvious bug in Windows 7 networking that made it right out the door, that brings file copies across the network to a horrendous snails pace. Its well documented all over the internet. These posters, like I, want to be able to completely remove it from Windows 7. I don't mean just not use it, or ignore it, or turn it off. I mean rip it out so its no longer there. So we don't have to look at it, so we aren't confused by it, and so that there is nothing left but basic Windows XP style workgroups.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mrstarr]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:28:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Win8 desktop I ran an update today and this new mysterious icon appeared...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Everything was fine and fully functioning. But what is this new Icon &quot;HomeGroup&quot;. Strange, I thought; &quot;Where did this come from?&quot; Well I'll move it to a desktop folder I created named &quot;Win8_Stuff&quot;. Hmmm, icon doesn't responded to mouse drags/cuts/clicks except opening HomeGroup. Searched the web and here is the fix for Win7 which worked perfectly for Win8 Pro x64. No mystery icon anymore, and related services stopped and disabled. Lost connection to my HP 7410 printer. No printing from my desktop now; It is connected to my desktop via usb cable (my WInXp Pro 32bit laptop connects to it via wireless as well as my daughters laptop).Unplugged power and usb cable to printer. My Win8 desktop &quot;re-found?&quot; it. All is well now, and that pesky icon and services are still no-more.Thank you for the article. Works spot on for a Win8 Pro x64 machine.jimb]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jbuff61173@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:07:52 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Disabling the service is not really necessary]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Simply stop the service after leaving the homegroup. Just be sure that startup has been setup as &quot;Manual&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[stormalfla]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:43:50 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Stupid]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Except its stupid - people want it away from the pane because its in the way - not disable the function.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Everq]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:48:02 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Removed HomeGroup]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I guess you might need it if you share files with your family.  I would rather install a small server for sharing but I don't need to share files with my family.  I almost never need to share files so why have the resources used all the time.  Better to pull out the USB memory stick and do a sneaker net transfer.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vijer]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:00:57 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's affected by your network setting: cannot use HomeGroup anyway]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Even in the house I have my network set to &quot;public&quot; (which, contrary to common sense, means &quot;most private&quot;). I hate the default settings of Windows Media which crawls my network looking for stuff to share. There never has been a HomeGroup folder on my systems because of the network selection. Seems to me this could solve the corporate issues for some people who don't need sharing.The list Explorer presents should allow checkbox selection. I only want Computer, Network, and Recycle Bin. I would eliminate Favorites, Libraries, Control Panel, and the duplicated listing of the user's folder and Desktop (they're also under Computer). The more this represents the tree structure of my resources the better it is. If instead I wanted logical views I would use the Libraries feature; but I do not want that.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[cnet@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:03:53 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Remove HomeGroup from Windows Explorer in Windows 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Greg,Your series here on modifications to Windows Explorer has apparently been a godsend to the IT community, judging from the large response that you have had.  I'd like to suggest that instead of getting rid of a lot of stuff that cramps IT Tech's style, if there were a manner that we could 'Sort' the 'Folders' window on the Left, one could then 'Sort' what (s)he defines as 'Distracting' to the bottom and keep what one defines as 'Important' on the top.Further, we should all remember that IT Techs are probably less than 10% of the MS Customer Base.  The newer appearance of Windows Explorer probably is designed to address the remaining 90 %.The Challenge to IT Tech's is then,  to learn to understand how the rest of the world 'Thinks' so that we may continue to assist them in their use of these technical 'Wonders'.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Regulus]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:15:43 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Single computer - Homegroup not necessary]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would assume if you have one Windows 7 computer and you don't plan on getting another one, you can follow this procedure to remove the Homegroup feature [and thereby removing one service that loads].]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gis Bun]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:57:03 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Remove HomeGroup from Windows Explorer in Windows 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[About time.  I have 8 computers on the home network, most of them XP, with no intent to move to 7 on any more computers for several years.  All our computers have blanket sharing of all directories, desktops, etc for collaboration.  All 8 share the common wifi printer.  Our one 7 computer tries to dominate the network, and this will be great to have peers again who can talk to each other without restrictions.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[theolog@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:48:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Remove HomeGroup from Windows Explorer in Windows 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I removed HomeGroup when I teamed my 2 LAN ports for a 2 Gb LAN connection.  It disables one of the Peer services, and with that disabled, HomeGroup will not work.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Blue-J]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:40:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Summary: Why use HomeGroup?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can you sum up in a few bullet points the benefits of using HomeGroup?  Your articles are more about the functionality: I'm interested in the pro's and con's.  Maybe do another set of posts: one for corporate use and one for home use.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[blarman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:35:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Corporate environment question - consensus is to ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[remove this functionality then?If so, I need to verify if this is removed via an AD policy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[phil.gillett@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:32:28 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Remove HomeGroup from Windows Explorer in Windows 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I do not share files or printers on my Windows 7 system, so I used this tip. Very easy to do and worked as advertised.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ashofmann]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:02:07 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Remove Homegroup via REG Settings for MDT?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[So, anyone know how to remove these services via registry? We would like to do that for our Corporate image using MDT 2010.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mulder@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:00:39 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Remove HomeGroup from Windows Explorer in Windows 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is the same limit for peer to peer (10 computers) applied to Windows 7 as with XP?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[john.myerson@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:45:03 -0800</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was having all kinds of problems with my home network because of HomeGroup.  I have 2 XP PC's plus this 7 Laptop in a Workgroup. Everytime I mistakenly hit HomeGroup on my 7 LT, it disabled my connections to the WorkGroup. I just followed your instructions for disabling HomeGroup.  Everything seems to be working just great.  THANKS!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken Cameron]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:49:35 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Removing HomeGroup]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I can see this technique for removing/disabling HomeGroup as being useful when deploying Windows 7 in a corporate environment so as to conform to corporate security policies and to conserve system resources.This technique should definitely be explored when building the system images that are to be deployed to workstations]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rcm0502@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:11:05 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Removing HomeGroup?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Have you decided not to use the HomeGroup networking tool in Windows Explorer? Will you use this technique to remove it?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark W. Kaelin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:57:04 -0800</pubDate>
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