Recently an AskVG reader asked how can he remove "Homegroup" icon from My Computer window in Windows 7?
"Homegroup" is a new feature in Windows 7 which allows to share files and printers on a home network quickly and easily. You can get more info about Homegroup at this link.
The Homegroup can be accessed using Windows Explorer. Its displayed in Navigation pane as shown below:
Now the important thing is that not all people are going to use this new feature. If you have a single PC and don't want to use this feature, why not disable it and save some system resources? Yes, Homegroup runs 2 services in background and you can stop those services to free some valuable system resources.
So today in this tutorial, we are going to tell you how to disable "Homegroup" feature in Windows 7? So without wasting any time, lets start the tutorial:
1. Open Computer and right-click on "Homegroup" icon present in Navigation pane and select "Change HomeGroup Settings":
2. Now click on "Leave the homegroup..." link given at bottom.
3. It'll ask for confirmation, click on "Leave the homegroup" button.
4. After that, close Explorer window. Now type services.msc in RUN or Startmenu Searchbox and press Enter. It'll open "Services" window.
Here look for following 2 services:
- HomeGroup Listener
- HomeGroup Provider
Once you find them, double-click on each and change the "Startup type" to Disabled. Apply the changes and exit from Services window.
5. That's it. It'll permanently disable "HomeGroup" feature and its icon will also be removed from Windows Explorer:
This article was posted in Troubleshooting, Windows 7.
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karthik
hi
i am having a problem with rename my disk drives.all the drives are named as local disk and i cannot rename them.please help me with this
MAGNUMHEART
vg this is off topic and i need help
how cud i resolved an error causing by system dlls
recently in my xp i changed almost all icons of dlls and cpls in system32 folder.
and VLC can't run displaying an error msg:
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc257/magnumheart/VLCError.png
thx for the help. i used resource hacker to change dlls and cpls.
how can i resolve this. and also easeus partiton master doesnt display
the drive partitions it just displays the app window
but no contents. but with menubar and tasks at the left ^^.
Daniel
Wonderful. Have looked for this since beta.
No just a same tutorial to remove libraries is needed because I don't need them and they waste space in the left pane of the explorer.
shariq
hi VG. this problem is off topic but i didn't know anywhere else to post it.
Since i started using win 7 RC i have been having a slight problem. the taskbar buttons of all open applications dont always show.
see here:
http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss218/shariq00/Capture1.png
google chrome was running but there was no icon to click on... the "alt+tab" feature works, but it starts getting annoying when u can't use your mouse to switch to that window. any help is much appreciated.
VG
^^ Most probably a bug in RC.
@MAGNUMHEART
It seems your Shell32.dll file size is very large. Try to remove unnecessary BITMAPs, AVIs from the file.
@Daniel
I'm going to post the tutorial very soon. So stay tuned.
@karthik
Did you try to set the label using drive properties?
MAGNUMHEART
vg do u mean "shell32.dll" is the only problem
and modifying other dlls and cpls doesnt have to do with it? ^^
thx. can i just revert the normal dll for "shell32.dll" can u provide a link.
karthik
yup i have even tried disk management.but in vain
terminator406
Hi VG , can you please tell me how to remove network icon from explorer
David
I have win7 and before I follow the steps to remove homegroup I would like to know is it possible to reinstate homegroup if required or would it be a reinstallation of windows 7?
VG
^^ You can re-enable the disabled services and Homegroup feature will come back.