feedgatorbill4
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I have everything I can see disabled for sharing. Everything in:
-Start > PC settings
-When I go to Start and type in 'homegroup', 'Network', 'workgroup', etc.
-This Computer > Network
-All file explorer folders and drives.
I think W8.1 installed like this.
I have a printer that's like 15 years old and worked fine in XP but couldn't get it to work with W8.1. I made a thread and we tried basically everything but I gave up and am getting a new printer. I'm waiting from the manufacturer if there's a universal driver or if it definitely can't be used with W8.
But anyway, when I tried to print, Windows couldn't find the 15 year old printer and asked to 'install a printer?" When I hit yes, it tries to install the printer on a computer in the other room (I know because of the printer name). That printer IS on a workgroup and can be printed from other computers here and most likely without a password or anything (but never printed from my PC using XP that I noticed).
I have "sharing and the ability to see other computers and devices on this network" turned off, so how did I find the device? Is it because the device is set to share without a password and windows thinks it's doing me a favor by allowing me to see it despite it saying I have even seeing other devices blocked?
I don't want to share anything at all to the network/workgroup/homegroup. I installed W8.1 about a week ago and haven't retreived my XP data from my external because of possible unaware sharing.
And, I'm pretty sure the workgroup here is called WORKGROUP, and even though I don't think I'm sharing on it, it says I'm on WORKGROUP under my 'System', so I also changed that to random jumbled letters. Is that an extra step to insure no sharing or actually prone to more accidental sharing, or it doesn't matter?
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
-Start > PC settings
-When I go to Start and type in 'homegroup', 'Network', 'workgroup', etc.
-This Computer > Network
-All file explorer folders and drives.
I think W8.1 installed like this.
I have a printer that's like 15 years old and worked fine in XP but couldn't get it to work with W8.1. I made a thread and we tried basically everything but I gave up and am getting a new printer. I'm waiting from the manufacturer if there's a universal driver or if it definitely can't be used with W8.
But anyway, when I tried to print, Windows couldn't find the 15 year old printer and asked to 'install a printer?" When I hit yes, it tries to install the printer on a computer in the other room (I know because of the printer name). That printer IS on a workgroup and can be printed from other computers here and most likely without a password or anything (but never printed from my PC using XP that I noticed).
I have "sharing and the ability to see other computers and devices on this network" turned off, so how did I find the device? Is it because the device is set to share without a password and windows thinks it's doing me a favor by allowing me to see it despite it saying I have even seeing other devices blocked?
I don't want to share anything at all to the network/workgroup/homegroup. I installed W8.1 about a week ago and haven't retreived my XP data from my external because of possible unaware sharing.
And, I'm pretty sure the workgroup here is called WORKGROUP, and even though I don't think I'm sharing on it, it says I'm on WORKGROUP under my 'System', so I also changed that to random jumbled letters. Is that an extra step to insure no sharing or actually prone to more accidental sharing, or it doesn't matter?
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- w8