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Several months ago I purchased a GT60 0NC-002, but I only now have enough time to set it up. This is a brand new computer, out of the box, purchased from a reputable online retailer (Newegg).
After the first start up I installed about 100 WIndows patches, then uninstalled the free Bitdefender trial, Norton Backup and the MS Office 2010 trial. Other than that I have installed NOTHING else, no third party firewall, no AV, no antispyware or any other software.
First I wanted to join the HomeGroup and it wouldn't let me, so I left the HomeGroup on my desktop and other laptop and tried to create a HomeGroup on the MSI, and no matter what I do I keep getting the same pesky message:
WIndows cannot set up a homegroup on this computer.
After days of reading articles, forum postings, PDFs, blogs and miscellaneous "solutions" I am still getting the error. From what I learned, there are several requirements to be able to set up a HomeGroup and the following is what I have already done or checked:
The machine is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64
Required Services are started:
DNS Client
Function Discovery Provider Host
Function Discovery Resource Publication
Peer Networking Grouping
HomeGroup Provider
HomeGroup Listener
SSDP Discovery
UPnP Device Host
IPV6 is enabled
No 3rd party AV or firewall
The machine IS connected to the network via LAN (but I get the same results over WiFi)
Network is set to Home network
I am running on an Administrator account
Time is properly set
SFC/Scannow found NO corrupt files
Deleted the files under:
C:\windows\serviceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Roaming\PeerNetworking
including idstore.sst, rebooted and tried HomeGroup set up again witn NO results.
Made sure that DisabledComponents = 0 the registry at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents
This is my last try before I abandon all attempts to use the HomeGroup altogether, I am wondering if anyone had the same problem with a similar machine or if perhaps the Killer Network software could be interfering.
If it matters:
Core i7 3610QM (2.3 Ghz)
15.6" Display
12 Gb DDR3 1600 Ram
1 Tb Hd 7200 Rpm
Nvidia GeForce GTX 670M
Many thanks in advance.

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