Bug: Hard lock from Homegroup


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Here are the basic steps I took.

1. changed the homegroup password (8 charachters, all lowercase, all letters, no special characters/spaces)

2. went to my other PC and connected it to the homegroup

3. went back to my main PC and found that it was completely locked up. CTRL+ALT+DEL did nothing, it needed a manual reset.

Once I rebooted my pc made it to the desktop but locked up again as soon as the network services were being loaded. I rebooted again with the exact same result.

I then booted into safe mode and made the following changes in network settings;

-Reduced the Home Group encryption

-disabled password protected sharing

-enabled network discovery

I then rebooted and everything was fine although the other computer in the homegroup was sleeping by this time so I don't know if that was a factor (I didn't have time in the morning to check it). I'm guessing the issue was caused by the encryption settings as it's the only thing I can imagine would cause a hard lock.

Has anyone had a similar experience?

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