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Aethelred

In all the words you, and others, have written on the subject of Windows 7 networking, nowhere can I find instructions on how to change the network location from “public” to “home”.
Running W7HP on a Dell 1520 with already operating home network. I have successfully established a homegroup to which other PCs belong – very easy – but nowhere can I find how to change from “public” to “home” on this one laptop.
Microsoft obviously disinterested (W7 is so superior, after all) – can you help?

Ciprian

The answer you seek, can be found here:
http://www.digitalcitizen.life/network-locations-explained

Just read the How to Change the Network Location location section of the article.

GK

I have this strange behavior that the network settings keep changing when I switch network locations. I have T410 (Lenovo) with Windows 7. I go to the advanced settings and change Home or Work settings as the following: 1. Turn on network discovery, 2. Turn off file and printer sharing. For the Public I change to: 1. Turn off network discovery, 2. Turn off file and printer sharing.

I basically have two network locations: at home with Home network setting, and at work with Public setting. The strange behavior is whenever I change network location from home to work, or work to home, the network discovery and file/printer sharing turns on. I have been trying all sorts of method, but something is turning them on.

What may be causing this? It has driven me crazy. Because whenever I go to work, the first thing I do is turning the network discovery and file/printer sharing off. I do not want any of my personal information leaking. Thank you for the help.

Peter T

yes I know how you feel, whatever I do every time I turn computer on the damn filesharing turned itself on again, despite being turned off and saved before..its driving me nuts…Microshit strikes again!

Anonymous

I have a problem with the settings, i cant enable for example
turn on network discovery or turn on file and printer sharing and so on,
but Media Streaming settings and every setting under it works, can anyone help me?
I’ve pressed save changes, but when i go into the settings again they are just back do off..

Anonymous

This is the first time I have been to this site and I cannot believe how FANTASTIC it is. It does what MS seems incapable of doing: giving step-by-step (with visuals) instructions on “how to’s” – I hope you are not affiliated with MS, but if you are, they sure are keeping it secret. Can you believe there is no user’s guide/manual for Windows 7 users? Typical. They should pay you for this very understable site.

Oh well, here’s my problem. I am staying in a hotel where you can only use a wireless service. Every month they give us a new code to connect. I have no idea what service they use, except it is affiliated with the hotel – something like G-Tek (I’m not sure and I can’t find where I saved it). Anyway, everything was fine, I was able to connect to the network every month with no problems. I could see other networks; I can still see the other networks available (they are all security protected, ours is not), but if you wanted to see if you could connect (just so I could see how a “secure” and “unsecure” network wored. Previously, there was an option to to check/not check the “connect automatically” feature. Now all of sudden, all of them show they have the ability to connect automatically – the box is checked. I can’t find ANY site where they tell me how to disable this feature. When I went to MS Suport/Windows 7, it only told me how to enable.

As you can probably tell, I am not technically minded AT ALL! I used to think ignorance is bliss, but I am founding out this is not true. I have never used a wireless connection before and have heard so many horror stories about using it. I am running Windows 7, Norton 360 on a Dell Laptop Inspiron 15R. I have installed all updates via Windows update. PLEASE HELP.

Anonymous

I can share DOCUMENTS file but can not share other files on c drive. they show up on other computer but not allowed to access.

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

Can you give an example of what other files you want to share from the C drive?
For example the built-in security of Windows 7 will not allow access if you share the C:Windows folder or C:Program Files as it tries to protect system files from unauthorized access.

Godfrey Gwande

We have a wireless LAN at our office. There are computers using windows XP , windows Vista and windows 7. We have a server which we use for internet and email facility. A NAS box is connected to the system. the problem is, only computers with windows Xp can see the box. It is meant to be used as a back up box. All the machines receive internet and email well. What could be the problem?

Anonymous

Finally someone who avoided using all the technical jargon and posted a tutorial in plain english so that anyone can understand it. Thanx for resolving my issues with WinXP and Win7.

Naomi

At work we are using windows 7. We have 2 computers and normaly they network just fine. Sometimes they just stop connectiong and wont share new information. Any ideas as to why this happens?

Dana

I have 2 Windows 7 laptops on which I had set-up a homegroup which was working just fine. Suddenly none of the PCs can detect each other although they are both connected to the same Network. I checked everything, including the set-up you published and can’t find anything wrong. I believe this happened when one of the PCs was “updated” by Windows, so I restored it before that point but it still doesn’t work. Please help!
Thank you!

Don P

I have done everything on all the sites I can find. My XP and XP pro computers all see each other and can access files and shared directories.
My XPS all can see and access the new Windows 7 computer but
The computer with Win 7 can’t see the other XP computers at all. No shared dirs or anything. No computer names. It does see the network printers.

My settings are all right, shared, no password, 128 is off, public is off, all shared, Discover is on. The workgroups all have the same name. So what is missing.

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

You might have an internet security suite (or other security solution) that is configured incorrectly and doesn’t allow you to access shared network resources correctly.

Jan

Could you expand on this comment more. I have no idea where to find my internet security suite or what might be configured incorrectly.
thanks.

PhredE

This has been my problem for the past five years, Ciprian.
It would have been good if Jan had replied 😐
The latest solution I have found is to restart the service ‘server’ on Win7.
As admin, run services.msc, then find server; right-click and restart it.
That may help.

PhredE

Whoops, out by one all round: to Don P via Ciprian. 🙂

cmcanulty

I run several xubuntu 14.04 computers and several win 7 at a local public library. I can connect to all but one windows 7 computer from xubuntu, is there a way to troubleshoot? I have done all the above plus opened firewalls on both ends to the static local ips