Win7 can not close the reason for password protection sharing and solution

Symptom:

Win7 system, users set the shared folder and always prompt the user name and password when accessing other computers, in the network And sharing center ---“advanced sharing settings&rdquo ; set the discovery back to <; enable password protected sharing & rdquo;.

Cause Analysis:

After checking that the guest account is enabled, the password is set. Only when the guest account password is empty, the password-protected share can be closed.

Solution:

1. The guest account is enabled in the user account by default. There is no password. If the password is set to the guest account, it will display “Password Protection”. At this time, “Password Protection” The sharing function cannot be turned off;

2, Win7 Professional and Ultimate, you can open “Computer Management ---<quo;Local Users and Groups>, find“guest” account Right click and select “Set Password ---Do not enter any characters in the pop-up new password, confirm password window, just hit enter or click OK, the password can be cleared, disable the guest account and then enable, account No longer display "Password Protection";

3, Win7 Home Basic and Home Premium, because there are no local users and groups, you can only use the "net user" command to clear the password, first Run as administrator (“CMD”; open a command prompt window, type net user guest “" (the guest is followed by double quotes) and hit enter.

Unable to close the password-protected share under Win7 system is mainly because the guest account is password-protected. Users need to cancel the login password of the guest account before re-closing the password-protected share.