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My PC upgraded to Windows 10 Pro version 1803 yesterday during automatic updates. This morning I attempted to view files in my network. Home Group is no longer available in this newest update. It seems in their wisdom they decided it was not needed and provided other solutions to share files/directories. I following the instructions to share files/directories via Windows Explorer. Guess what? You can not share directories only individual files at one time. This is not acceptable. After much trial and error I found a work around. As long as you have the name of the PC in your network you can enter "\PCNAME" and it should give you access. Bring back Home Group to the Windows operating system!
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But now Network doesn't work either. My second computer on my home network...gone, invisible. Computer does not show up no matter what I do, One file at a time, not acceptable. And my Microsoft Account is screwing up as well, password works for one thing, not another. Killed my outlook email on the main computer as it won't sign in to Microsoft with a working password, yet I can sign in just fine directly. This is totally screwed up, ruining things that work from one day to the next.
Got a similar problem: computer1 saw computer2, but computer 2 did not see computer1 in my network. Solution: On computer1 look in Services for: Function Discovery Resource Publication, it is probably set to manual, set it automatic en restart the computer1. In my case computer2 saw now computer1
Success
No surprise there. Microsoft did advertise for months that HomeGroup was being retired. To me, it never worked anyways. Good riddance.
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What a complete stuff up.
Look at the confusion here amongst a reasonably tech literate group.
Imagine the chaos around the world among basic consumer users who had homegroup sharing working.
Microsoft appear unable to learn in regard to its dealings with customers , the arrogance is just amazing.
Think I will break out the USB drives and back away quietly for a month until they release a working system.
Very well said. Microsoft really screwed up with Windows 10 - again! Microsoft has a real bad disconnect when dealing with its customers. Microsoft will continue to lose customers with this attitude. After the 1803 update, it took me about a day to get my network back to where I wanted it. For the basic consumer, this must be total chaos.
What a complete stuff up.
Look at the confusion here amongst a reasonably tech literate group.
Imagine the chaos around the world among basic consumer users who had homegroup sharing working.
Microsoft appear unable to learn in regard to its dealings with customers , the arrogance is just amazing.
Think I will break out the USB drives and back away quietly for a month until they release a working system.
