Homegroup not Functioning, cant leave homegroup


  1. Posts : 4
    windows 10
       #1

    Homegroup not Functioning, cant leave homegroup


    I cannot leave the homegroup. we had 2 computers in the network with windows 7 and windows 8.1. Windows 7 upgraded to windows 10. and the other one did a clean install of windows 8.1. Now i cannot leave the homegroup from windows 10 and the windows 8.1 has created a new homegroup(that PC didnot find the homegroup that windows 10 was part of) Now I cannot leave the homegroup or do anything with it. Is there a way to manually leave the homegroup. It says 'Windows couldn't remove your computer from the homegroup"
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  2. Posts : 30
    Windows 10 Education
       #2

    You do not need to be connected to a network to leave a Homegroup, so my advice in the first instance would be, to disconnect the PC from the network and all unnecessary peripherals, restart the PC, navigate to ..

    Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\HomeGroup

    and select the option to leave the Homegroup.
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  3. Posts : 4
    windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #3

    No, that still does nothing. I cant do anything related to homegroup! Even after disconnecting the Lan cable and Restarting it gives the same error
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  4. Posts : 2,799
    Linux Mint 20.1 Win10Prox64
       #4

    Open Services and double check if Homegroup listener and Homegroup provider are running. If not turn them on so you can leave the Homegroup.
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  5. Posts : 4
    windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #5

    They are on!!
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  6. Posts : 30
    Windows 10 Education
       #6

    It sounds as though you may have a corrupted file or reg entry. How would you feel about a clean install/reset? Do you have many installed applications that would be difficult to reinstall?
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  7. Posts : 2,799
    Linux Mint 20.1 Win10Prox64
       #7

    You can try:
    1. Disable the 2 services mentioned above then restart your PC
    2. Run CCleaner
    3. Enable the services again and try to Leave the Homegroup.
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  8. Posts : 4
    windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #8

    No, it still doesn't do anything, same results.
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  9. Posts : 4
    Windows 10 Pro
       #9

    Fast Start


    Salman said:
    No, it still doesn't do anything, same results.
    Turn off Fast Start see if that helps
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