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Greetings!

Some time ago I made HomeGroup to share my printer.
Today I noticed that my PC can’t connect to printer or any other shared folders on other PC in homegroup.
Tried to remake it but then I faced an issue:
My PC (the one who I need to connect to homegroup) doesn’t show any Homegroup on network even I made it on other PC.
When I ran “HomeGroup troubleshooter” it showed me following message that begins with:
“A non-Microsoft firewall is installed on this computer.”
At the “Troubleshooting has completed” windows it shows"
“Avast Antivirus is installed on this computer” and it had a yellow triangle at the end.
So I assume that Avast! is doing some stuff with my PC that doesn’t allow me to connect to HomeGroup.

Using Windows 7.

Any solutions?

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You don’t say what avast version you have installed they don’t all have the avast firewall) ?

If your paid version of avast has the firewall, you probably need to allow file and printer sharing to be able to share the printer across the network.

I use avast free without the avast firewall so I can’t be helpful other than this has been seen in other forum topics.

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I’m using “Avast Internet Security” 12.3.2280 paid version.

I had created HomeGroup and shared and used shared printer before.
As I said, I was able to join HomeGroup but not anymore and troubleshooter showed messages that was described in the beginning of this post.

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Have you checked that file and printer sharing is allowed ?
This has been reported in other topics to regain access to their printers.
EDIT: And or Internet Connection Sharing Mode.

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Funny thing happened…

Installed some Windows updates and all went fine again… Homegroup working… ???

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Thanks for taking the time to confirm the issue is now gone.

Computers, what would we do without them. To err is human, to really screw up you need a computer.