Windows 10: Can't Connect from Win 8 Laptop to Win 10 PC

Hi . I have to devices at home - a laptop running Win 8 and a PC (with a local printer) that used to run Win 7 but which I recently upgraded to Win 10. I used to be able to connect my laptop to the PC to access the shared printer and files in a shared directory. Since I upgraded the PC to Win 10, I am no longer able to connect to the printer or even see the Win 10 PC on the home network.

I tried leaving the Homegroup from both devices and then recreating the Homegroup on the Win 10 PC again. I was able to connect to the Homegroup from the laptop using the password, but when I click on the Homegroup in Explorer, I get a message that I cannot connect to the Homegroup. I also don't see the PC under the Network.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Adam

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Homegroups

I have a main pc (now on win 10 from win 8), a laptop (now win 10 from win 8.1) and a laptop (win 7 pro) all on an existing homegroup for the past 2 years. Since the windows 10 upgrades this week the homegroup will not work (allow printers to be shared).

I have finally deleted the homegroup on the main pc and win 10 laptop. Restarted and established a new homegroup on the main pc (and given printers new share names).

On the win 10 laptop it accepts the new homegroup name but not the password - and on various screens show "no homegroup on this pc - ready to create" etc but nothing about joining the existing named homegroup.

I have tried all variation of options (including those in the posts on here) but it just wont allow the laptops to connect using the new homegroup name/password combination on the main pc.

This is really annoying, and obviously a windows 10 bug - which hasn't been acknowledged or rectified

 

Win 10 Activation after clean install on new hard disk

Hi,

I bought a laptop with Win 8 installed on it and upgraded to Win 10 and it worked well. Yesterday, the hard drive on the laptop crashed and I lost all the data (including the recovery information or Win 8 installation files) and I installed a new hard drive
and performed the clean install of Win 10 Pro.

Now I can't activate the Win 10 as I am not upgrading from Win 8 and don't have the product key for that version.

How do I activate the win 10 on new HDD (the other hardware MB, Processor, RAM stays the same)

Kind regards,

Shoaib

 

Can you ping one computer from the other?

 

Check you network location in network and sharing center , If its set to public change it to private.

Follow this TenForums tutorial if you not sure how to do it.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6...dows-10-a.html

It should look like this

 

Thanks for the responses. It's already private. I left the Homegroup and then rejoined using the password, but when I look for the other PC, I get the same message that it's not available.

Adam