Lost access to network share

CCleaner for Windows
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So I have 3 computers, each one of them with their own Windows version:

Windows 7

Windows 8

Windows 10

Win 8 had some temporary files issues making it sluggish, and I was told by some tech guru to instal CCleaner. I usually do not use these type of softwares unless strickly required, but I installed and used the cleaning utility. The computer was still slow and sluggish, CCleaner didn't help. I ended up upgrading the computer by adding 8 GB to the existing 4 , with 12 GB thats a good machine now, much better and responsive now.

My real problem began when I installed CCleaner on the Win 7 computer. Before using CCleaner, they ALL had network access to all of them; shared folders worked great, from and to every machine.

After I ran CCleaner to clean Win 7, I lost access to shared folders on Win 8. Why? I can't tell. Now I the only way to copy files from Win 8 to Win 7 is by using remote access (TeamViewer) to drag and drop files. This is NOT acceptable.

Please if anyone knows how to fix this, I would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

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Hi nemezis, welcome

what have you tried so far?

what version of CC?

did you also run the registry cleaner in CC and do you have winapp2.ini or any other enhancements to CC?

what is your AV software?

have you gone into Control Panel (view by small icons), Network and Sharing Centre, Change advanced sharing settings, in all 3 categories, check network discovery is turned on, file and printer sharing is turned on, and turn off password-protected sharing.

temporarily turn off your firewall and see if that's where the issue lies.

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Hello there

I can't tell the CC version, I'm not near those 3 machines right now.

But I do know it must likely be the most recent version because I downloaded it recently (last week or so).

I don't have any special enhancements to CC, and my AV is Panda Cloud Free.

Regardind the network settings, I think I tried pretty much thing I could think of:

- changing DHCP to auto

- changing IP back to manual (as it always was, along with the 2 other machines)

- changing network type

- changing shared folders access and permissions

- network discovery and file sharing are turned ON (they always been like that)

- password protected sharing is OFF

None of these options worked.

Only thing I can try is to play around with the firewall settings, turn it off and on, but I have the feeling it will do nothing.