Hope this helps, worked for me! Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Networking. Sign in to vote. When I try to create a homegroup on either of my computers I get the error Your network connection must have IPv6 enabled to create or join a homegroup. When I check the properties it is enabled. I can see all the drives and access all shared drives from either computer, why is homegroup not working?
Sunday, November 1, AM. If the key doesn't exist, please create the key above and assign the value 0 e. Monday, November 2, AM. Hope you get an answer soon. Two days searching for an answer. Sunday, November 1, PM. Works a dream, thanks Novak! Tuesday, November 3, PM. Worked perfectly! Thursday, November 19, PM. I had te "Enable IPv6" problem on both of my newly upgraded to Windows 7 computers. So, I opened regedit again and went to the TCPIP6 parameter and the registry had reverted back to the the original "ff" value for the parameter.
I tried the edit several times and even tried rebooting after making the edit a few times. I eventually discovered that the "0" value seemed to revert back to "ff" during the reboot.
I also eventually edited the parameter for ControlSet, , and from "ff" to "0" but still got the same result.
In any case, I could never get the laptop to join the homegroup because it would always say I needed to enable IPv6. Is there some other copy of the registry somewhere that iI am missing that could be causing this? Tuesday, December 1, PM.
Thanks, Great! Wednesday, December 2, PM. I made the changes exactly as you described to ALL the computers I wanted on the homegroup and it worked!!! Thank you so much for your help. I will spread the word with all the new Windows 7 users I know.
Wednesday, January 20, PM. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Double-click DisabledComponents. Type any one of the following values to configure the IPv6 protocol, and then click OK: 1. Type 0 to enable all IPv6 components. Friday, January 22, PM. This is nice information to have just in case I run into this situation while trying to help others get their Homegroup up and running.
Thank you. Sunday, January 24, AM. I have done everything you suggest, but still cannot create a homegroup. I have a desktop with Windows 7 and a laptop with Windows 7. Check whether IPv6 is enabled. Click Start, Collapse this image, Expand this image, type Services. Right-click Peer Networking Grouping , and then click Properties. On the General tab, check whether the service is started.
If the service is not started, click Start. In the Startup type list, select Automatic. Click OK. Double-click the DisabledComponents registry entry, and then type 0 in the Value data box.
Note: If the DisabledComponents registry entry is not present, you must create it. Exit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer. This should automatically add the rule to the Windows firewall also for the private profile. Also, you want to enable on more setting here, which I mention below. You can do this by going to Control Panel, then Network and Sharing Center, and clicking on Change advanced sharing settings in the left pane.
Make sure that the Turn on network discovery radio button is selected. It should be on by default, but if someone changed your settings, this could also cause the problem. Go to each computer and make sure that all the clocks are showing the correct time. If the clocks are not synchronized, the HomeGroup feature will not work.
If your computer is connected to the Internet, it should automatically pick up the correct time. The only occasion where it would not is if you are in a domain, then the clocks should be synchronized to the domain controller. You may have to check the time server settings if that is not the case. In order for the HomeGroup networking feature to be working, there are certain Windows services that need to be enabled and running. If you used a program to disable services or manually disabled them, it may be causing the problem.
In the Services dialog, double-click on the service and make sure the Startup type is set to Automatic and click Start to turn on the service. You can check this by going to Network and Sharing center and looking under Network. This is pretty much not an issue anymore, but just for the sake of covering all bases, you need to make sure that your router can support IPv6 protocol. Any relatively new router will support it, so unless you have a really old router, you should be ok.
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