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Dec 8, 2012

I have a home network set up by geeksquad. They have set up a filesharing where the public drive is on my only PC with a Vista Operating sys. They have a WORKGROUP called WORKGROUP. I connect everything else wirelessly. Have 2 Windows 7 Home laptops connected. A shared printer is also connected.

I now have a new laptop with Windows 8 and just want to add it in. I named the Homegroup WORKGROUP and I can see the other computers when I click on network, but I can't access them. When I click on the other computers especially the Vista PC with the public drive, it asks for a network user ID and password. I tried everything I can think of and it keeps telling me password invalid.

So my new laptopwith Windows 8 has yet to be added to the filesharing and printer sharing.

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And I want append (without overwritting) there more data (green below) and remove some data (red above) to have:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftABCEFG]
"HIJ"=hex(7):25,00,77,00,69,00,6E,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,
25,00,5C,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6D,00,33 ,00,32,00,5C,00,77,00,
62,00,65,00,6D,00,5C,00,63,00,69,00,6D,00,77,00,69 ,00,6E,00,33,00,32,00,
2E,00,6D,00,6F,00,66,00,00,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6E,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,
25,00,5C,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6D,00,33 ,00,32,00,5C,00,77,00,
62,00,65,00,6D,00,5C,00,6E,00,63,00,70,00,72,00,6F ,00,76,00,2E,00,6D,00,
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