HOMEGROUP WILL NOT ACCEPT PASSWORD - NEW INSTALLATION
Amazon finally got my Win 7 copies to me yesterday. I have been running the RC version on 2 PC's. Today I successfully installed Windows & Home premium on one of my PC. However, when I went to join the homegroup with my other Win 7 machine and my WHS server the new installation would not accept the HOMEGROUP PASSWORD. It keeps saying the password is incorrect. I have done screen print on both machine plus I had a previous printout of the password; yet the new installation keeps stating that the password is incorrect. Anyone have any suggestions. I did a GOOGLE but didn't find anything helpful. CarolinaGuy
October 29th, 2009 10:14pm

Hi, You may try to create a new homegroup by your new copy of Windows 7 Home Premium, and join other computers to this new homegroup. Note: homegroup is only available for Windows 7. For more information, you can check Networking home computers running different versions of Windows For how to create a homegroup, I suggest you read the article: HomeGroup from start to finish Good luck!Arthur Li - MSFT
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October 30th, 2009 10:46am

Arthur, Thanks for your suggestions, I did finally get it to work. First I changed the password to something simple. Next , I turned off all the Window Firewalls and lastly, I made sure Network Discovery was turned on. Everything is working fine now. again thanks, I enjoyed the article on HomeGroups. Charlie
October 30th, 2009 5:43pm

The same issue is happening to me. I have researched this for the last three days and haven't found an answer that has fixed my problem. I am still unable to see PC2's Homegroup and PC2 cannot join my home group citing it is "incorrect password." I also see that PC2 was having trouble installing MW2 via steam games, stating a "network error (16)"... Whenever I downloaded and attempted to use Network Magic Pro, it believed that PC2 was on "ICS" and Network Pro did not support it and must disable. Though during installation for PC1 for network magic pro, I didn't get an "ICS" message. Interesting. The reason why the homegroup thing is so important is for 1) File sharing and 2) I believe it ties closely into why she cannot connect to games on MW2 PC Multiplayer. She is stuck at "synchronizing settings..." for a long time. There seems to be other things going on that I'm not very sure about. I have double and triple checked that all computers are on the same network, network discovery is on, have the same time synchronization, and all services are started (and automatic in most cases). Yet this issue still seemingly persists. PC2 has a fresh install of Windows 7. The router configurations (Ultraline Series 3) look to all be correct. The firewall configurations have not been messed with and no third party ones have ever been installed. As a side note, I do work for a System's Support group for a major tax software development company and I am wholesomely stumped by this. My next steps are 1) turn off both firewalls (though I have tried this before but will again) 2) Possibly format PC1 to ensure there are FRESH installations on both PC's 3) Exchange the router for a new model / etc. 4) Throw in a new network card for PC2 Any more feedback/advice would be greatly appreciated.
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July 1st, 2010 7:08pm

You all might have checked this, but I don't see it written, The time and date need to be the same on all computers.
March 26th, 2011 9:37am

So you’re about to setup your new Windows 7 PC into your Homegroup when you realized that you have no idea what the password is. How do you find it? It’s actually pretty simple, if you know where to look. Finding Your Homegroup Password Open up Windows Explorer, and then find the Homegroup option in the left-hand navigation pane. Right-click on Homegroup and choose “View the HomeGroup password” And there you go, your... Recover Windows 7 Home Group Password
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April 14th, 2011 11:37pm

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