Hello, I am trying to join a Windows 7 Homegroup created by another Windows 7 computer (both computers are on the same network and running Windows 7). I keep getting the error message that I cannot connect to the Homegroup because IPv6 is not enabled. However, IPv6 is enabled; I have tried disabling it and re-enabling it, reinstalling my network card drivers, disabling and re-enabling the network card, and I have double-checked that all advanced sharing settings and workgroup names are the same on both computers. I saw another post here with someone having the same problem but no solution was posted. Does anybody have an idea what I can do to fix this? My network card is a Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN. Thanks, Cameron

Brilliant; that seems to have done the trick. Thanks! -Cameron

i had this same problem and this procedure worked! thank you, it is much appreciated :)

I am not able to modify the value to 0. It is currently f. Could someone give me some more direction please.

novak thank you very much for this fix. i have read many posts on many threads and none have worked. yours was totally different from anything i have seen so i was hopeful. it worked like a charm on the 3 computers i was trying to put on a home group. thanks again!!!! Note to RA Modesto: I know of no reason why you can't change the dword value to 0. all you should have to do is get the cursor blinking on the "f" and hit backspace to delete it and then type in the number 0. Good luck.

THANK YOU! Perfect explanation, worked like a charm.

I am getting extremely frustrated with my homegroup at the moment. I have win 7 64 bit ultimate on the pc i created my homegroup on. I was able to connect to my homegroup with my netbook (win 7 home premium 32 bit) with no problem. I have a laptop with win 7 proffessional 32 bit and keeping getting th dumb error "HomeGroup encountered an error" when I try and connect. I have tried the above along with 10 other ideas that didn't work and am ready to give-up and go back to workgroups. Yes the times are all the same and all have the same timezone! Yes I am entering the password correctly! I re-created the homegroup - no luck turned off windows firewall and unistalled my AV software (Avast) - no luck. really getting angry at this point. the funniest thing about this is that I am able to share the printer without being on the homegroup. I can access the external hard drive connected to my desktop with no issues but I cannot connect to either of the hard drives inside my desktop "access denied" and these are the drives I want access to so I can create a backup and access ll my dvds and music wirelessly Anyone have any other suggestions before I give up on homegroups?

Dude, this worked perfectly. You're a genius! Thank you so much!

Worked for me. Thanks

THIS WAS THE SOLUTION TO MY PROBLEM!!! I was having the same issue with IPv6 and HomeGroup for a laptop running Win7 Enterprise x64 that I was trying to get to join to my homegroup (set up with Win7 Professional). I changed the registry setting you mentioned and problem solved. Thanks!!!

I followed the steps and after restart the IPv6 parameter went back to ff. Help

I saw this and thought I was home free. My PC can't see the netwok that I am using. It says I am not connected to any networks. I can see the router and other computers in network places. I am trying to set up a homegroup between this PC (win 7 64) and another win 7 32) machine Before, when I ran the troubleshooter, it asked me to enable the IPv6. I followed the solution above and now I don't get that response. It just give up and asks me to call a friend search for a soultion in the help files online or register a call with support services. any thoughts would be appreciated.Bowie

I am having exactly the same problem as Jim BOB 21 above. This forum needs an solution; please. I see we have some very experienced techs in this forum. Hopefully this will be solved soon!!!!!! A+ N+ CCNA

After I set the value of the key "DisabledComponents" to 0 and reboot the value is resetting to the existing non 0 hex figure. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate SP1. How do I prevent this resetting of registry value on reboot. Thanks - Ranabir

I've got the same problem. I managed to create a homegroup using my laptop and I wanted my PC to join the group. However, on the PC the DisabledComponents keeps changing to FF after I restart the system. I have no clue why this is happening - on my laptop there is no such element in the registry and everything works fine. Any new ideas?

Make sure that the drives and directories can be shared. I will now go and try the solutions given by Novak Wu, as I'm having the same problem with making my 64-bits Windows 7 Home Premium pc a member of the same Homegroup as my other 4 Windows 7 pc's. I am getting sick and tired of this IPv6-thing. Bill Gates got rich by not finishing his work properly.

Dit is het dagen aan het prutsen geweest in windows. Maar dit is echt de oplossing . Veel dank

BINGO! Thank you, it works....Why do MS have to make it so complicated to do anything?

Brilliant .. that fixed it all I am now happily sharing files between my laptop and desktop computers

Novak Wu - Thank you so much. 3-1/2 years later and your solution works like a charm on my Windows 8 systems!

Works like a charm! :) Thank you!

This procedure effortlessly worked its "magic". The problem was that the DisabledComponents key was not set to 0. Both my laptop (Win8) and desktop (Win7) are wireless-connected to the network router. The printer is plugged into a USB port on my desktop. With the modification of the DisabledComponents key to value 0, I was able to print a test page from my laptop to the printer on my desktop. Thanks, Novak Wu.