Cannot start P2P services on Win 7 PC

[Chris Wilson]

I have a Win7 64 bit PC on which I have recently found I cannot turn on P2P services, it comes up with an error and I am unable to see the Homegroup password. I believe it was always accessed on my wired home network as a Workgroup though. A newly built similar OS PC can see the printers and the router, but no files. File sharing is on on both PC's. I am a network dummy but suspect the inability to start the P2P services may be the issue. is there a fairly straightforward way to fix this please? Thanks I also want to access the PC's from a laptop running XP SP3, which is why I think I originally had it using WORKGROUP.

 

[WJA96]

What anti-virus software are you running? Have you tried turning off Windows firewall to see if that resolves it? This used to be a fairly common issue with Norton and McAfee anti-virus. Windows own Bitdefender should be fine and give you no issues.

 

[Chris Wilson]

Thanks, I tried that and it did not help, but I then Googled the actual obtuse error codes and got a result saying a file would be corrupt and to rename it and allow Windows to recreate it on a reboot. This worked immediately, thankfully. I appreciate your reply, thanks WJA96!