Apparently Win 10, which our desktop is, does not play nicely on housenets with Win 7…it really doesn’t play well with lower levels of Windows, but it doesn’t even talk nicely to 7. It wants a user name (which could be, oh, let us see, computer a, computer b, or some new one specific to the net—3 variables to guess) and a password, which we figure SHOULD match the user name, except that this COULD refer to the target computer, OR the password of the group, or the individual password of the originating computer) another 3 variables. Are we calculating the variables, friends? Plus are we considering the possibility of a keying error in one try or another? Win 10 wants you to link directly, not by housenet, but you’re still stuck. Oh, and if you’ve ever had a housenet created by a ‘dead’ computer, you have to go into REGEDIT and try to kill it from there, but you must do that on every one of, oh, 3-5 machines, some of which are like, printers, with no regedit, and fix it there and get it offline before, at computer speed, it can resurrect that former network, which persists like a movie zombie.

Maddening. We finally have one of ours talking to another, but not talking to the ‘central’ machine of the network…and we still don’t know the answers to all or any of the above. I have NEVER seen such a bollixed-up launch of a product as this, which reaches backward in its history to really screw things up which it is not even supposed to mess with.