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# Leave the HomeGroup - <code>Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\HomeGroup</code>
 
# Leave the HomeGroup - <code>Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\HomeGroup</code>
 
# Disable HomeGroup services
 
# Disable HomeGroup services
# Open regedit and browse to key <code>Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}</code>.
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# Open regedit and browse to key <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}</code>.
 
## Take ownership of this key and grant yourself all permissions to it.
 
## Take ownership of this key and grant yourself all permissions to it.
 
## Right-click the key and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name the new value <code>System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree</code> and leave the value set to 0.
 
## Right-click the key and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name the new value <code>System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree</code> and leave the value set to 0.

Latest revision as of 17:50, 25 February 2018

System Wakes Up Unexpectedly

Use the following command to find out why your system woke up:

powercfg -lastwake

The output from this command might help you fix this problem.

Disable HomeGroup

  1. Leave the HomeGroup - Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\HomeGroup
  2. Disable HomeGroup services
  3. Open regedit and browse to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}.
    1. Take ownership of this key and grant yourself all permissions to it.
    2. Right-click the key and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name the new value System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree and leave the value set to 0.
  4. You may need to restart for the changes to take effect.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27091/how-to-disable-or-enable-the-homegroup-feature-in-windows-7/

Show Seconds in System Clock

Use regedit to browse to key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced. Add a DWORD entry ShowSecondsInSystemClock with a value of 1 to the key.

https://winaero.com/blog/taskbar-clock-show-seconds-windows-10/

How to make elevated programs recognize network drives

Use regedit to browse to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System. Add a DWORD entry EnableLinkedConnections with a value of 1 to the key.

http://www.winability.com/how-to-make-elevated-programs-recognize-network-drives/