"Windows can't remove your computer from the homegroup"

adichuu

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Hello,

I have a Samsung Series 9 13in laptop running windows 8, and I'm attempting to stream video to my xbox 360 (it's one of the new, "slim" ones). I've read you need your homegroup set up in order to facilitate this, but I'm having nothing but trouble with it.

When I try to change any settings on the homegroup, most of the settings are greyed out, and the ones a can change reset as soon as I do it.

Screenshot is here: http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/p680/adichuu/homegroup_zps180b5419.png

How do I enable these settings?

Any tips for streaming from win8 to xbox?

Cheers!
 

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That tutorial didn't address my problem, I am unable to leave the homegroup or change any settings. The dialogue box simply tells me "Windows cannot remove your computer from this homegroup."

Any suggestions?

I have tried conbinations of disabling, re-enabling and restarting Homegroup services, and cleared out the NetworkingProfiles roaming folder, still no luck.
 

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    Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5 2467M
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    Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000

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    Sapphire ATI Radeon R7 250
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    Realtek ALC892
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    Samsung UN32EH5000, Dell 1703FPT
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    1920 x 1080
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    WD5003AZEX
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I think were dealing with a bigger problem than just not leaving the Homegroup.

Does Network Discovery stay on in the Advanced Sharing Settings?

In general just removing the files at peer networking can fix the "not leaving Homegroup" problem but with everything greyed out we may be dealing with a different problem this time.

Homegroup Not Working - Windows 7 Help Forums
 

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I had the same problem : I tried many other steps, but finally what worked was this awesome tip from Microsoft Answers :

I had a similar issue just recently and none of the fixes mentioned anywhere worked.First thing was to figure out exactly what clicking "Leave the homegroup" does. I opened Process Monitor, added a filter to include results from explorer.exe (as that's the process that spawns the control panel window) then started capturing. Clicking on that link caused explorer.exe to create a new thread then destroy the thread with nothing in between, so I disabled the filters and saw that it was calling svchost.exe. svchost.exe then traversed the registry until it hit a snag. One registry key was giving an access denied error.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{C90250F3-4D7D-4991-9B69-A5C5BC1C2AE6}
Instead of fiddling with permissions, I exported that key, deleted it, then re-added it, and lo and behold, no more access denied error. After this, I did the usual routine of stopping the three Peer* services, deleting the C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Roaming\PeerNetworking folder, then restarting said processes. This time, clicking on Leave the homegroup worked as intended. With a few more tweaks (disabling and stopping the two HomeGroup services), any mention of HomeGroup in the navigation pane in Explorer was gone.
Ironically, starting the HomeGroup Listener service still gave me some about %%-2147023143. But nevertheless, I'd fixed my issue so all was well.
When in doubt, bust out Process Monitor.

Smart guy(/gal?)!
 

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