Well, my face is slightly red, from the long post I made a few minutes ago.
I did indeed run the Homegroup Troubleshooter on both computers before making my original post.
However, I did not run it again after uninstalling Hamachi.
I just did so, on the Windows 7 computer.
I was informed...
I do appreciate your attempt to help.
However, aside from specifically using the term "Network Discovery", my original post indicated that I've already done everything your post would suggest.
I suppose I'm asking for my post to be read, rather than skimmed for keywords, before replying...
Alas, the forum allows only very short titles - so short as to defy creation of an explanatory title - so my title was probably unclear.
I've been trying to allow a Windows 8 computer to access files residing on a Windows 7 computer.
After a few hassles+, I got the computers sharing a common...