Can't share local printer in Windows 7 Pro-error 0x000006d9

Hello,
I recently purchased a laptop and wanted to share my local printer, attached via USB to my desktop (tower) in my home.  My desktop runs Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.  My laptop runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
When I try to share my printer, accept the default printer name (or modify it), from the sharing tab of printer properties, I get an error:  "printer settings could not be saved.  Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006d9)".
I did some searching in this forum and via google but this error code does not appear for this type of issue (i.e. printer sharing).  Does anyone have any suggestions?
I also verified my Event Viewer and see no errors whatsoever related to printer or network settings or file and printer sharing.  I CAN share my files on THIS desktop with the laptop and have already transferred files from the desktop to the laptop successfully.  But printer sharing is giving the above error. 
** Also, I MAY have a related problem but I am unsure about this, so I wanted to mention this in this same thread in case they are related:  I cannot start the homegroup listener service from services on the desktop (win 7 pro) - get error code 2147023143.  Homegroups are NOT setup (not created) on neither the laptop nor the desktop.  Again, I tried to search for this error code but the results are inconclusive.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
John

Its now been THREE YEARS since this "bug" has been discovered and resolved by a user, and there is not one word about it in MS's online help.  Today I had this exact issue of not being able to share a printer on Windows 7 with other computers on my
my local network.  And this is the same printer I've been sharing with the same network for nearly FIVE YEARS!!  I have always used 3rd party virus/firewall software, but I don't disable the windows firewall.  Rather I just set it to "Manual"
because some network software seems to need it occassionally.  The result is the same however, as is the solution.  I had updated and reinstalled my printer software, and apparantly sharing is disabled by default.  After stumbling upon this
thread, after several hours wasted searching Windows Help and Microsoft "NON"-Support websites and KB's, I simply ran the firewall just long enough to enable sharing, and instantly the backlog of spoolled print jobs began printing.
Thank you.  You would think MS would have at least written this solution into their help files by now ... but than again, they are probably making money with their "paid" support option from all the desperate people who suddenly can't use there printers. 
Probably charging $50 just to tell people to turn the firewall on for a few seconds.  I can't think of another reason to conveniently omit this simple solution from the "free" support.

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