I have been using Homegroup on my PCs for years and never ever noticed this.
Last week I did clean installs of Win 8.1 on both my laptop and tablet and I suddenly noticed that they are represented by a red icon in the Homegroup.
During troubleshooting I "left" the Homegroup with all PCs, made a fresh homegroup and reconnected, but the red icons just appeared again.
Things seem to work normally, I can access all shared files from all PCs on all other PCs.
This makes me wonder: did I miss these red color of the icons all these years, or did they just appear now and does the red color indicate something I should correct?
Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts and wisdom!
Last week I did clean installs of Win 8.1 on both my laptop and tablet and I suddenly noticed that they are represented by a red icon in the Homegroup.
During troubleshooting I "left" the Homegroup with all PCs, made a fresh homegroup and reconnected, but the red icons just appeared again.
Things seem to work normally, I can access all shared files from all PCs on all other PCs.
This makes me wonder: did I miss these red color of the icons all these years, or did they just appear now and does the red color indicate something I should correct?
Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts and wisdom!
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Home build
- CPU
- i7
- Motherboard
- MSI P67A-GD65
- Memory
- 16GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVidia GeForce GTX 460
- Sound Card
- -
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Eizo EV2333W
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- 2 x 1 TB HDD in Raid 0 |
2 x Samsung SSD 840 Pro |
WD MyBook 1130 USB
- Case
- Antec
- Browser
- IE
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender