Everything was so expensive back in the 90s.
I recall buying a 14.4K modem for ~£80 as the 28.8k models were almost twice as much.
You paid an ISP at least £15 a month for access plus you had to pay for your phone connection. So you could be spending £30+ per month for just a 14.4K...
Even mobile phones can easily handle 16 bit or higher bit depth colours so there’s no technical reason to limit an interface to 16 colours.
Microsoft merged the consumer line with the workstation line with XP.
With 32 bit versions of XP or later 16 bit applications are run in a...
@ MadScientist. Thanks for that. I have tried creating the HG on different PCs with no joy. I haven’t tried using my laptop to create the HG yet so maybe I’ll give that a go. I’m building a new desktop very soon so I’ll probably wait until I can use that to create it and...
Everything is set to Home. The trouble-shooter picks up basics things like that from past experience.
I’ll try disabling the Firewall but that’s not a long term solution of course. :)
Thanks for the links. They cover the basics and obvious things but none of that helped. I did find another link that was helpful but it still hasnt solved the issue:
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/windows-7-homegroup-not-working-try-these-quick-fixes-912305...
I have just built a HTPC but cant get it to participate in a Homegroup (HG). It wont join an existing HG or if I delete that and create a new HG with the HTPC the other 2 PCs cant join it.
My laptop can happily join a HG that my desktop created.
All 3 systems are running Windows 7 Pro x64...
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