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Windows 7 Homegroup - Peer Networking Grouping Service failing to start

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Jake Thomas
, 05-06-2011 at 06:58 PM (19215 Views)
I had a weird Windows 7 Homegroup issue happen lately. I had used Homegroup previously with success and knew both computers in the Homegroup were successfully connected. However recently one computer would not connect. I tried changing passwords, made sure ports were open through Windows firewall, and made sure the computers had other forms of communication open. Everything looked fine, but still no Homegroup.

I then ran the Homegroup troubleshooter and it was telling me that the Peer Networking Grouping Service could not be started. I fired up the Windows Services console (Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services) and found that indeed the Peer Networking Grouping Service was stopped. I right-clicked and selected Start. It failed with an error 1068 saying the dependency service was not able to start. I then tried to start the Peer Name Resolution Protocol service which also failed with an error 0x80630801: 0x80630801. After quickly searching around I found that the problem resides with a corrupt file in the PeerNetworking folder on the system drive.

UPDATE: To see the below file and containing folder you will need to show hidden folders in Windows Explorer. To do this open Windows Explorer and click on Organize > Folder and search options. Then on the View tab, under the Advanced settings section select Show hidden files, folders, or drives. Click OK.

I browsed to
Code:
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Roaming\PeerNetworking\
and deleted the idstore.sst file. I then went back to the services console, right-clicked Peer Networking Grouping and selected Start. This and the Peer Name Resolution Protocol services immediately started back up. I then had to run the Homegroup troubleshooter one more time to refresh the Homegroup information. Everything works great now.

Hopefully this will help someone with this same problem

Updated Today at 08:27 AM by Jake Thomas

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  1. Unregistered's Avatar
    same problem here, less luck solving it... deleting the file didn't solve much for me
  2. Jake Thomas's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered
    same problem here, less luck solving it... deleting the file didn't solve much for me
    Are you stuck on the same error message when you try to restart the service?
  3. Unregistered's Avatar
    Hello,

    i also faced this problem many times but i fixed it. i got a lot of information from this post. i also got some help from this article http://ezinearticles.com/?Firefox-Fl...es?&id=4730411 its very helpful for me
  4. Unregistered's Avatar
    I get to C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService but where you say I should then continue into the appdata folder, I can't. Because it isn't there. Any insight on this?
  5. Jake Thomas's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered
    I get to C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService but where you say I should then continue into the appdata folder, I can't. Because it isn't there. Any insight on this?
    You just need to make sure you show hidden folders. You aren't seeing it because it is indeed hidden. To do this open Windows Explorer and click on Organize > Folder and search options. Then on the View tab, under the Advanced settings section select Show hidden files, folders, or drives. Click OK.

    Hope this helps. Thanks for this question; I'll update the post with this information.
  6. Unregistered's Avatar
    I had the same problem after I update to Windows 7 on my "server" at home.
    I was stumped untill I read this. Solution worked perfectly as discribed.
    Many thanks.
  7. rick's Avatar
    This worked exactly how you said.
  8. Unregistered's Avatar
    Thank-you very much. I had exactly this problem and this fix worked for me, although I had to take the additional step of leaving and rejoining the home group. Cheers.
  9. LBS's Avatar
    I also had trouble with the peernetworking yadda yadda....the trick is the show those hidden files and folders so you can find the idstore file and delete it. After deleting it, I had to run the homegroup troubleshooting and refresh, etc, but then it all worked! Yay! Follow the original instructions and it hopefully it will work for you too.
  10. Unregistered's Avatar
    i have home network with decent pc knoweldege and it seems
  11. MMoiz's Avatar
    Thank for the Great Support . Worked perfect for me. Keep up the good work!!
  12. Unregistered's Avatar
    cheers, just wanted to thank you for the tip, fixed my problem
  13. Unregistered's Avatar
    worked for me also, thanks
  14. Unregistered's Avatar
    Same problem...fix worked like a charm. Than you!
  15. Unregistered's Avatar
    well it works to my problem....thank you for sharing....thanks a lot dude
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