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Hi, I have had this headache too. Homegroup stops working for no reason and cannot be repaired without disabling/re-enabling once again. I grew fed up with it and went to the not desired solution as I am the only user of both my desktop and network machines and didn't want to write the password (yes, I know it is more secure and I am a lazy one. Pardon me!) every time in both. There is no other solution to share in windows (besides homegroup). You have to have password in all the shared machines so windows let you access to the shares. FOR ME, the easy solution and, the one I'm using right now with no problems since I tried is to do so: Make you sure you have administrator rights. Establish a password in every shared machine. Make sure the password is stored as Windows Credentials in the Credential Manager (Control Panel) with Enterprise Persistence if you don't want to have to write it every time you access the shared. Now you should be able to access any of your shares without the password popup. If you don't want to enter the passwords every time you switch on your machines (lazy of me), you can use the "netplwiz" windows utility to bypass the computer start login. I'm in Windows 8/8.1 Pro but, for what I have read, this should work in Windows 7 too. Hope I have been of any help...