how can i fix error code 2147500037

I don't know if anyone else has posted this as a reply, as there are 130 responses and I don't feel like leafing through each one. From what I can see, the general consensus is that you must set IE as your default browser, then Control Panel, then Homegroup, and then click on the option to see/print your password. Print it. Then, (again, according to what I see in some of the responses) you change your default browser back to whatever you prefer (IMHO ANYTHING but IE!!)

 I, too, couldn't print my Homegroup password. I use Firefox - have been for years, not changing. This is what I did:

Before doing anything, log off of, and turn off, all other computers in your network.

Click on the Window, lower left corner.

Click Control Panel

Click Homegroup

Run Homegroup troubleshooter.

When Troubleshooter is done, close it out. At this point, you should be presented with the option to start a New Homegroup.

Do so.

Again, you will not be able to print the password that you will be given because you are not (I hope) using IE. You can, however...

1. Write your new password down. I recommend that you do so. Then, leaving the password page open,
2. Click the Window, lower left corner.
3. Type the word "snip" which will give you a "Snipping Tool". Click "NEW" in the upper left corner of the Snip Tool.
4. Everything on the page will "gray out". Place the pointer at the upper left corner of what you want to print, click and hold, outline what you want to print, release the click you were holding... click on "File", click on "Print"... print away! Long, but effective.

Hi,

Thanks for your continues response. I appreciate your efforts in resolving the issue.

You can check the resolution provided by Afzal Taher on March 8, 2010, the answer was helpful.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_7-hardware/win32-error-code-returned-by-the-print-processor/5aeaa54e-302a-482d-b757-e8df74f72f08

Please post back with the results. We will be glad to assist you further.

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Thanks & Regards,

Isha Soni

 This is NOT a printer problem.  My Kodak Hero 9.1 prints everything I send to it EXCEPT the HomeGroup Password when my default browser is something other than IE.  Currently it is setup to print WIFI but I've also tried USB, 10/100 Ethernet and gigabit Ethernet with the same outcome.  This is a MS self-inflicted IE Default Browser problem. I can print the HomeGroup Password IF I make IE my default browser.  This is an unacceptable solution to this problem.  We should be able to print any object using another browser as the default.

The rumour is the next release of Windows 10 is going to demise the Homegroup functionality - perhaps that is why they haven't fixed the printing issue....

In addition to forcing us to use IE, this is a good example of how most software developers (not just at MS) treat the customer.  Rather than tell us in the first place that IE needs to be the default for this to work, it gives us an inscrutable error message.  The onus is then on the customer to figure out what this means and how to solve this bug.  

Why in the world can't the software simply advise us of this requirement in the first place?  There is plenty of room for a sentence to explain it.  If they don't want to tell us until we encounter the bug, then they could accompany the inscrutable error message with an explanation.  This is just common sense.  

Why is it so hard to treat customers with basic courtesy?   It should be a basic requirement in designing software.

Hello,

Thank you for the Update on related issue.

If OP (original post) writer would not reply with the details then how can we reach the conclusion. Please do not blame Microsoft or Internet Explorer unnecessarily and without any research. What you thinking is just an assumption. We certainly like if our valuable users use our programs but it bring no good to our program by enforcing users to uninstall third party program.

Please think other way around, Internet Explorer and Windows shares system files and if would be obvious if Windows need Internet Explorer active during course of troubleshooting.

Please feel free to reply, in case you face any other issues with Windows in future.