Win7 spontaneously allows files and printers, sharing on public networks

There isn't any residential group activated on the computer, but I recently changed the creation of connections of residential group "user accounts and passwords...". "to"allow Windows to manage the homegroup connections... ". ». Normally the files and printers, sharing on public networks is always set to "disable." After login on the computer yesterday, I happened to check in the sharing settings and found that file sharing has been enabled on public networks. I immediately turned off again, but when I woke up once again the computer from sleep mode, today I found that files and printers, sharing on public networks had been reactivated file sharing.

I wonder if this behavior is related to the homegroup connections settings? Another probable cause?

Hi Ralf,.

Thanks for posting your question on the Microsoft Community forums.

The issue you reported has arisen because of changes in the homegroup settings. As you ' permit Windows manage the homegroup connections "in the homegroup settings, it makes sharing settings to get turned on when you restart the system. So, you can change settings like previous configured in order to solve the problem.

For more information, please see the following link:

Networking of computers running different versions of Windows

Hope this information is useful. Let us know if you need more help, we will be happy to help you.

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