Windows 10: Windows finds homegroup that doesn't exist.

I have multiple PCs in my house, one that I use myself, and one that is used by the others. Now I need to transfer about 80GB from one PC to the other, and I decided to try the homegroup thingy. Now I never set it up, not on my PC, nor on theirs, but since my bro is still very young, I can't guarantee that he didn't do anything, but I did check on that computer, and the homegroup doesn't exist.

So that homegroup doesn't exist, and when I check from my PC it finds a homegroup. I click join, and when it comes to joining, I get an error "windows no longer detects a homegroup (it can't detect what doesn't exist anyway).
So how can I create the homegroup ?

I also want to state that I want to create the homegroup from my PC because this is the PC that stays open most of the time.

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office manager

I had a homegroup with windows 7. When I updated to windows 10 the connection was lost. When I try to join the group I get a message

telling me the group doesn't exist. Start a new group. When I go to homegroup the only option I have is to join the homegroup that doesn't exist anymore. Very frustrating! How do I leave or delete the group that doesn't exist so I can start a new group?

 

Homegroup on a wireless network

I can't recreate the homegroup. Both computers simply say I have to join the already existing homegroup. The laptop even says that Laptop created it, and yet it says I have to join. It doesn't make any sense. There is a phantom homegroup with a password
that I can't find.

 

Does that username and computer name mean anything to you? That should tell you where the phantom homegroup is. Perhaps you have a neighbour scabbing your internet via WiFi.

I've never understood what the point of a homegroup is?

Regardless, to transfer your files just make a shared folder on the destination PC and move your files over via Explorer. Turning off password protection on the destination computer should make it a hassle free process.

 

Yeah. That username means something. It's my mum's username. But I didn't check if the PC name is the same as the one that's identified.

But the shared folder idea sounds good. I'll look into it now.

 

The way I do it is right click on the folder you want to share, choose Properties from the menu and hit the Sharing tab. Then do the following:





To turn off password protection do this: