Delete the old windows 10 homegroup. Leaving the homegroup

Some fifteen years ago, the family had only one computer and the question of creating a home local network just didn't stand. Now in one apartment PCs, a couple of laptops, tablets, smartphones can easily get along. Routers are now available and do not cost more expensive than a block cigarettes. Sooner or later, the question arises: how to combine all this machinery into one network? After all, you want to share the printer, disk drive and play network games... On Windows 10, setting up such a grid is not that difficult.

How to create a local network Windows 10 - magic, a router and a little wires

As funny as it sounds, when computers were slower and more expensive, building a local area network was cheaper and easier. To connect multiple computers, network adapters and a cheap coaxial cable(very similar to the connection cable television antennas). The connection topology was “ring”, so the router was simply not needed. But such networks were slow, the maximum achieved speed could not exceed 10 MB, and with the connection of new clients, the speed dropped exponentially.

The "ring" was replaced by the "star" topology, along which all are built modern networks... Here in the center is the router (router), and clients are at the ends of the beams of the imaginary star. The beam can be either a wired connection or a WiFi connection. Almost all home networks are star-based. The network that we will set up with you is no exception.

The router is a key player in the home (and indeed any other network). The incoming Internet channel, client machines, peripherals(printers and disk storage). 99% of home routers are equipped with WiFi module, so they can connect clients over the air. If you do not have a router, you will have to buy it, and it is advisable not to save on the purchase, because the speed and comfort of work depends on the performance and stability of the router. home network... The router must be equipped with at least two antennas and USB ports for connecting peripherals.

Avoid using routers that your Internet provider "gives" when you connect or installs "free". As a rule, these are the simplest and cheapest devices, the performance of which is enough for sharing to the Internet 2-3 smartphones. A home local area network is an exorbitant burden for such a unit: it will often freeze, overheat and ultimately fail.

If you live in an apartment building, it will be useful to buy a 2-band router operating in frequency ranges 2.4GHz - 5GHz. There are many more channels in the 5GHz band, and there are few more routers of this standard, so your mesh will be less influenced by the routers operating in the neighborhood. The illustration shows how routers configured to work in adjacent links interfere with each other. The result is a decrease in speed and response.

Program WiFi Analyzer will help to choose free channel in the working range

It will also not be superfluous to limit the transmitter power to a value at which stable reception is ensured throughout the house, and the rest of the networks will not be visible. This setting can be done both from the side of the router through the web interface, and from the side of the client computer through the device manager.

DD-WRT firmware provides user with flexible power setting of WiFi module

Setting up the router is quite simple and in most cases you will need to configure the incoming Internet connection (your provider will provide your login and password) and wireless network: come up with a name for her, choose an encryption algorithm (WEP, WPA or WPA2) and the most robust password. If necessary, enable the DHCP server for address distribution. After that, you can start connecting clients to your home network (hereinafter referred to as DS).

While creating wireless connections do not use encryption below WPA2. The network password must contain lowercase, capital letters and numbers look chaotic. Date of birth, name of a dog or girlfriend as a password - bad idea... On the net you can find a lot of programs for hacking wifi that do not require any special knowledge.

Connecting a DS client using a cable

If specially trained cable elves carry out the laying of cables around the apartment, the task is greatly simplified. If not, then you can do it yourself, though you have to work with your hands.

1. Choose a place for installing the router and connect the cable of the Internet provider to it - usually it is already inserted into the apartment / house and crimped with an RJ-45 plug. The port for connecting the provider's cable is highlighted and signed: WAN or Internet.

   The ISP cable plugs into a dedicated port on the back of the router

2. Route the cable to the computer connection points, fastening it to the baseboards. If the skirting boards have cable troughs, you can hide the cable in them.
3. With help crimping pliers crimp the RJ-45 connectors at the ends of the cable according to the diagram below.
4. Connect with cable network interface computer with the corresponding router port. If the number of computers that need to be connected to the network with a cable is more than four, you will need to connect an additional splitter switch to one of the ports and connect the remaining clients to it.

   Home network clients plug into connectors yellow color(LAN) at the back of the router

Connecting a DS client using WiFi

Despite the obvious advantages cable ( highest speed, no interference and harmful radiation), not everyone is ready to put up with the fact that a computer or laptop is tied with a wire. In addition, a number of devices (tablets, smartphones, convertible netbooks) have a network connection when WiFi assistance- the only possible option.

The first step is to enable WiFi interface in the router, create a network name (SSID), select the type of encryption and come up with a password:

On the computer, select from those available to WiFi reception your networks, enter the password and connect to it.

LAN settings in Windows 10

You connect to the router with a cable or over the air - make sure that the network card (adapter) has received the TCP / IP and DNS server addresses from the router:

1. Open "Network Connections" and find there network card through which the computer is connected to the router.
2. Expand the properties of the adapter, and in them - the TPC / IP protocol.
3. Make sure all values ​​are obtained automatically.

Then you need to make sure that the same workgroup is selected for all Windows devices connected to the network:

Working with Homegroups

For an unprepared user, the simplest solution in which all users will have general access to each other's resources - creating a Homegroup. In early Windows versions the home group was unstable and limited. In Windows 10, setup has become simple and straightforward, and the Homegroup mechanism works like a clock.

Creating a Homegroup in Windows 10 is a process that has been simplified as much as possible. Follow the instructions and prompts of the system, after checking required settings... In this case, access will open only to shared folders OS. If necessary, you can change the composition of the homegroup, enable or disable the types of resources that will be available, or exit the Homegroup.

Before creating a Homegroup, you must make public the folders that will be available in that group. By default in home group includes the so-called user files: "video", "music", "documents", as well as "printers and devices". If you don't want to mess around with add. settings, you can simply place documents for sharing in these folders. And if you need to make your folders accessible elsewhere hard disk, you will need to tinker a little.

Setting up a home network

Settings

Through efforts Microsoft the process of creating a network has become as simple and straightforward as possible. If you follow the instructions, there will be no problems.

1. In the Homegroup window, navigate to Change Advanced Sharing Settings, and then expand the Private tab.
2. Make active the "Turn on network discovery" and "Turn on file and printer sharing" items.
3. Then open the All Networks tab and enable the Turn on Sharing options. Users on your home network will then be able to read and write files to the shared folders in the homegroup.
4. To prevent users from having to enter passwords, enable the Disable Password Protected Sharing option.
5. Save the settings changes.

In the "Homegroup" window, select "Create a homegroup", and in it specify the folders to which access will be made. In the list available folders there will already be standard user Windows folders 10, as well as folders that you have configured access to separately.

Once you complete the Home Networking Wizard, your computer will generate a password that will need to be entered by the rest of your network users to access the shared folders. If password access is disabled, users can simply open folders as if they were located on their local drive.

Disabling password access to folders makes your home network vulnerable to external Internet attacks. If your network router is connected to the Internet, be sure to configure your firewall to exclude external requests to resources on your home network.

Connecting to a homegroup

Open the "Control Panel", in it turn on the "Categories" display mode, in the "Network and Internet" group, open the "Homegroup" item, and in it - the "Join" item.

Removing a homegroup

1. Disconnect from a homegroup before deleting it.

   The exit from the home group is carried out only after disconnecting from it

Disable network discovery and sharing to folders and printers. These options can be found in Advanced Sharing Options. Remember to save your changes.

Turn off sharing in order to leave the homegroup

2. Open the command line from which you start the service manager.
   

   Start service manager from command line Windows

3. The Homegroup Provider and Homegroup Listener services must be stopped.
   

   Select Homegroup Provider and Homegroup Listener services to stop

4. The service must not only be stopped, but also "manually" set the status at the start of the OS.
   

   In configuring service settings in Windows 10, you must click "Stop"

Now the homegroup will not show up in the control panel settings and work.

Video: how to create a local area network on Windows 10

Adding a device to the local network

How to add a device (not a computer / laptop) to a local network, consider the example of an ordinary printer. Several algorithms for sharing a printer on a network are possible. Depending on the interfaces of the printing device, it can be connected directly to the router or to one of the client computers with the shared access setting.

Modern printer for working groups carries all interfaces for integration into a local grid

Sharing an Ethernet Printer

Typically, color and monochrome have a wired network interface. laser printers for small workgroups and offices. These are rather big high-performance devices, so they are rare guests at home. But if by chance such a printer came to you, setting up a shared access to it is not difficult at all:

After installing the drivers, the printer is available for sharing.

Repeat steps 3–7 on each computer on your home network. It doesn't matter how the clients are connected, TCP / IP is supported on both cable and wireless connections.

Sharing a Wi-Fi Printer

Wireless interfaces can now be found even in inexpensive inkjet printers and MFPs. The manufacturers have tried to make the installation process as simple and straightforward as possible.

Printing on wireless printer will be available only for those network clients that are connected to it via WiFi. Wired clients cannot print directly to this printer. If you share this printer on a computer with WiFi, everyone can print.

Sharing a printer connected to a network client

This type of connection is the simplest. The interface of the printer is not important. All you need to do is set up general access to it:

Do not forget that printing on such network device will be possible only when the client computer to which the printer is connected is turned on.

How to remove LAN in Windows 10

This question is very relevant for laptop owners who often connect to public networks... With each connection in a new location, the OS creates a new local network called "Local Network N", where N = 1,2,3 ... network settings no, so here step by step guide to remove.

1. Use the Win + Pause key combination to open the system properties window and select “ Extra options systems ".

   In the window that opens, select additional system parameters

2. Open the "Environment Variables" dialog.
3. Create a new variable DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES and give it the value "1".

   After creating a new variable, you need to set it to 1

4. In the Device Manager, turn on the display hidden devices.
5. A whole bunch of old items will be visible in the "network adapters" section. network connections with the numbers "1,2,3" ... and ad infinitum. By deleting these items, you also delete the local networks associated with them.

   Periodically, it is better to clean the list of hidden devices using the manager

How to turn off network discovery

Network Discovery is a mechanism that allows computers on a network to see other machines, their network drives and printers. If you don't want your machine to be visible on your home network, it's best to turn off network discovery.

Home network does not work: causes and diagnostics

The network is both a technically and programmatically complex organism, equipment that provides round-the-clock uninterrupted operation and costs a lot of money. In the home segment, the class of equipment is lower and it is prone to failures and malfunctions. All this leads to the loss of network performance. Let's take a quick look at the main mesh issues and how to fix them.

Router malfunction

Most home routers are compact plastic cases. Electronic components work in a very difficult thermal regime, practically "at the limit". The hot season adds 10-15 degrees to the temperature of the device and the router "freezes". Together with it, the entire home network loses its performance. Symptoms are the inability to log into the router's web interface, lack of access to the Internet, and network resources... To restore the network, the router must be turned off and allowed to cool down, but this is a palliative measure. A radical solution to the problem would be to improve the heat transfer of the router by creating additional ventilation holes and installation of a fan for blowing.

Installation additional fans will help your router to overheat much less and last longer

The operation of the router in a severe thermal mode not only makes the network unstable and "buggy", but also reduces the lifetime of the router itself by 3-4 times.

Damaged network cable

Pets, curious children, or just a wife with a mop can instantly make a network segment unusable by damaging the wire that connects the computer to the router. If only one client has lost access to the network, the problem is most likely in the cable. Disconnect the connectors, carefully inspect them and the wire itself. If the RJ-45 plugs are damaged, you can cut them off and crimp new ones. If the wire itself is mechanically damaged, it must be replaced entirely. Twist or solder connections will cause network errors and drop speeds to snail speed.

Inexpensive twisted pair UTP designed for installation in protected cable ducts. If the cable is routed along the skirting board and is not properly secured, it can be easily damaged.

Damage to WiFi antennas

External antennas of the router or network adapter connected to a computer can be easily damaged by children or careless users. In inexpensive home devices, antenna connectors are held only by soldering, without additional fastening. Mechanical stress on antennas leads to cracking and loss of contact. It is easy to diagnose such damage - if there is a connection between the router and the computer at a distance of a meter and a half, and at 5-6 meters there is no longer - the antenna is damaged. The fix requires opening the device and soldering. If you do not have the skills for such repairs, contact the service center.

The SMA antenna connector is a vulnerability in the router. Impact or lateral force will break the connector

Long-term operation of the router with a damaged antenna may damage the device. Try to fix the problem as soon as possible.

So, the home local network has been created: the router blinks cheerfully with LEDs, network clients go online and exchange files, the printer rustles with sheets of paper. The grid works, but not everything has been done: you will need to install antivirus software, configure a firewall in the router, protect the connection from virus attacks from the outside, create a blacklist of sites so that children do not find "adult movies" on the network. Test the network for errors in data transmission and measure the speed of work. However, this is the topic of the next article. Stay with us!

The seven still have the opportunity to create a home network. More precisely, a group. It differs from the usual one in simplicity of configuration and management. The rest resembles an ordinary working group. The setup is launched from Explorer, and we'll see how to do that today. But the paucity of information on this score is striking. The official site tells us how to create a Homegroup in Windows 10, but it doesn't explain at all why it needs to be done. What's the difference besides ease of setup?

Let's try to understand why you need to create a homegroup. What are the pros and cons. A noticeable difference is that earlier in Home it was impossible to create a group, but it was possible to join. Now this limitation has been removed, which is quite logical. Think - Windows Home and Home Group, is there any similarity in the name? Should every dad buy a Pro so that the family can enjoy all the benefits of life? This is nonsense.

Group creation

How to connect

You can open any of them, it does not require a password.

Automatic tuning

Please note that the settings network discovery get lost. There will be written permissions to admit the PC to files and printers, as well as some others. If important, remove them manually.

Leaving a homegroup

You cannot delete a homegroup in Windows 10, but you can leave it. When the number of members becomes zero, the community will disappear. And it can be recreated any number of times.

password change

Adding resources

You can only edit those resources that were shown above. Other home groups cannot accommodate. But in a simple way, the already added ones are deleted without stopping the work. This is how a simple network is set up in Windows.

The advantages of this solution are obvious. Each member of the community turns on his PC and begins to interact with others. But what is the limit, where are the boundaries? Most likely set by the local local network. This is very cool for children who are not yet able to do serious adjustments for obvious reasons.

Why set up a home network? It would seem that a laptop, a computer and a couple of smartphones are working at home, they are periodically used to access the Internet. What else is needed? But remember how often you have to transfer files from one device to another? You have to copy to a USB flash drive and back or use Bluetooth.

Even if you do this no more than once a month, with a home LAN, everything will become much easier. In addition, its customization will open up a lot of new possibilities. For example, files can not be transferred, but run directly on another computer or even a TV (if it has the ability to work in a local network with Windows 10). It will be possible to run games on a grid, print documents from any computer to one printer and use many other features.

Basic concepts

A home local network is several computers connected by one network cable for data exchange. Most apartments today have Wi-Fi routers. Thanks to them, setting up a LAN has become a simple task.

A rough diagram of a home local network with Windows 10 might look like this:

As you can see in the figure, the Internet is fed via an Eternet wire to the router, to which a PC is connected via a patchcord (the same wire with double-sided connectors). Laptops and smartphone are connected to the router via Wi-Fi. Of course, such a connection does not create a local network by default. Need specific setting on each of the devices. In this example, different machines and gadgets, if not configured properly, will not be able to “see” each other.

The most important term in this whole process is the so-called groups. A Windows 10 workgroup can include a maximum of 20 machines that are nodes of the same level, that is, they cannot control each other. In other words, in such a network, all computers are equal - there is no main server.

In addition, there is the concept of a homegroup, which can be formed if computers already belong to a workgroup. In a homegroup, it's easy to share photos, music, movies, and documents from other devices. Such a group, unlike a work group, has a password, but you only need to enter it once to add a new device.

Create local space step by step

Working group

First of all, make sure that all computers have same name working group... It can be anything - you install it at your discretion. On Windows 10:

• Open Start and go to Utilities.
• Launch the classic Control Panel.
• Open the "System and Security" item.

• Go to the "System" section.
• On the left, select “Advanced System Settings”.

• A small window will open in which you need to select "Computer name" and click on the "Change" button.

• In the new window at the bottom there will be an item "The computer is a member of ...": select "workgroup" and write down the desired name.

This setup must be done on all computers with Windows 10 (for 7 and 8, everything is done in the same way), which will be on the home network.

Visibility of computers on the network

The fact that computers with Windows 10 or other versions of the OS are in the same group is not enough for them to begin to “see” each other. Needed additional customization... To turn on visibility do next steps on each of the machines:

• Open Control Panel.
• Select “Networks and Internet” and go to the Network and Sharing Center.

• Open “Change advanced settings…”.
• Turn on File and Printer Sharing and Network Discovery.

• You need to do this in all profiles, in addition to enable the item "Sharing to network users could read and write files in shared folders ”.
• Place the marker next to the "Disable password protected access" item.
• Save.

Sharing folders

Customization Windows networking 10 ends up sharing specific folders. To do this, just open the folder properties (by right-clicking - as always), then select the Access tab and go to Advanced settings. Check the box next to "Open Sharing" and click on the "Permissions" button.

Where for full access just check the boxes opposite “Full access”, “Change”, “Read” in the “Allow” column. But you can leave some checkboxes off and thus limit the capabilities of local network users.

Next to the Access tab is Security. Here click the "Change" button, and in the new window that opens "Add". In the empty box, write the word "All", as shown in the photo:

Now the "Everyone" group has appeared in the previous window. Select it and in the “Allow” column check all the boxes for full access. Save all changes and reboot. The setup is complete.

conclusions

After the performed manipulations, your Windows 10 should see the computers of its group and access all open folders... This is how a local network setup is summarized using Microsoft operating systems. In fact, everything may look different: the article contains only general principles.

For example, without a router (with a DHCP server enabled and automatic address distribution), two computers can be connected by a patch cord. In this case, after the first stage of configuration, you will need to register the IP addresses manually. This is done in the properties of the network adapter and the properties of the Internet protocol of the 4th version. It's the same for Windows 10, 8, 7 and even XP.

IPs of the form 192.168.0. * Are registered (for each computer, the last digit is unique, except for 0 and 1. You can use, for example, 5 and 7, Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and default gateway 192.168.0.1. 192.168 are specified as DNS servers. 0.1 and 192.168.0.0 (optional) If the router has DHCP disabled, a similar setting must be done as well.

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Microsoft does sharing files, including photos, videos and music and connections network printer easier with its network service.

Homegroup is a password protected home network service that allows you to share content with other PCs that are currently this moment are working and connected to the network. This is especially good if you have other than computers connected (for example, Xbox one) because you can set up a Homegroup to be able to transfer files from your computer to your TV or game console.

You can create one Homegroup per network. Here's how to do it.

1. Click right click mouse on the "Start" button and select "Control Panel" from the pop-up menu.

2. In the control panel, click on "Homegroup" (you can also search for the phrase "Homegroup" in the line Windows search) .

3. Click the Create Homegroup button to create a new homegroup.

4. A window will appear. Click the Next button again to get started. Choose the types of files you want to share with other members of the group: pictures, videos, music, documents, printers, and devices. You can set different permission levels for each file type. Click "Next" to continue.

5. The next screen will display the password for your new homegroup. Any device that you want to join your homegroup will need to enter this password to gain access, so it is advisable to print or write this password down.

The homegroup password is generated automatically in Windows, but you can change it to something more user-friendly in the homegroup settings menu. To do this, open the homegroup settings menu (Control Panel> Homegroup) and click the "Change password ..." link in the window that appears, "Change password" again.

6. You can take it a step further by allowing other devices in your homegroup to play the contents of your multimedia files... To do this, open the homegroup settings menu (Control Panel> Homegroup) and click the link "Allow all devices on this network, such as TV and gaming consoles, play my shared content. "

Home group is useful function Windows, which allows you to share files and device functionality between various computers connected to the same network. This feature first appeared on operating system Windows 7. Naturally, all other operating systems from Microsoft also support this feature.

Homegroup is a secure way to transfer documents and other important content, and all because it is protected with passwords. However, not all computers require this function... Some users, for example, do not really like the fact that the Homegroup icon constantly flashes in their Explorer.

Like many others useless functions and features, the Homegroup can also be disabled quite simply. Let's take a look at how to disable this functionality.

How to disable HomeGroup on Windows 10

If you are not using a Homegroup, then you have the option to disable its icon from Windows Explorer. To accomplish this, you can use a couple of methods, which can be found below.

Method # 1 Leave Homegroup

The simplest and fastest way removing a Homegroup is just leaving it.

• Click on Win + S.
• Write in search string Homegroup and press Enter.
• Find the box titled “Other Home Group Activities”.
• Find the link "Leave homegroup" under it.
• Click the "Leave homegroup" item again in a different window.
• Wait for the changes to take effect.

However, even if you left the Homegroup, there is still a chance that its icon may remain in Windows Explorer... If that's exactly what happened, then do this:

• Click on Win + R.
• Write in services.msc and press Enter.
• Find the HomeGroup Listener service in the list and double-click on it.
• The properties window for this service will appear in front of you. Find the drop-down menu with a set of startup types and select an option that will disable this service.
• Also, do not forget to click on the "Stop" button in order for the service to stop its work.
• Then apply the changes and click OK.

Method number 2 Editing the Windows Registry

We recommend using this method only if the previous one, for some reason, could not help you, and the Homegroup did not disappear. However, be aware that you will need to make some changes in the Editor to execute it. Windows Registry... So we recommend that you first make a backup of your Registry before you start doing anything.

Once you're done, your Windows will automatically set the value in the created parameter to 0 which means disabling Homegroup in your Windows Explorer.