Hide computer from network on windows 8 ?

I have a privacy problem, I live in a house share, and I don't want other users on the internet connection network to see that im online, on network computers and devices. I do the usual procedure to hide this ( by turning network discovery off), but this does not seem to work on windows 8! ive tested it on a friends laptop when he came over, I am still visible! are there any programs, or anything else I can do to make my computer not appear??

 

nobody knows the answer????

 

As far as I can see turning off network discovery only stops you from seeing other network computers. It doesn't stop them from seeing you. Just tested this on a Win 7 machine and it can still be seen from two others, an XP VM and another Win 7 machine. Seeing the computer though doesn't reveal anything at all about what it is doing or expose any of its files unless password protected sharing has been turned off.

This isn't how it's supposed to work though, it is supposed to hide your computer too.

 

It's meant to work and say what it does, but it doesn't for some reason.

I just dont want them to see my online late at night and i dont want them to be able to take remote access or see my files or anything, mainly i dont want them to see my computer is on.

One or two or the housemates have the administrative passwords for router login whys that?

 

I have never been successful at this, so many programs broadcast their presence.
http://forums.comodo.com/help-for-v3-b105.0/-t18397.0.html
has a ton of ideas

 

Yeah, I'm guessing too that it may be possible to hide on the LAN with firewall settings, but if others have access to the router then no chance at all of becoming invisible imo.

 

Already seen that video and tried it, does 't work :-(

Dont see the point in there being settings on the conputer to hide it from the network if it doesnt do what it says on the tin.

 

They don't tell you how to do it in that link i just clicked on :-(

 

Go to your adapter settings and uncheck files & printer sharing for MS networks? In the 'old' day you would uncheck netbios.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265284

Last I remeber something like naming the PC with the $pcname would hide it... can't recall if this is correct and google isn't helping. The reason I think it is $ because the default c$ share..so maybe it was pcname$??

This link has another solution. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/172544-computer-name-hide-unhide-network.html it works if people don't know the name of your PC, if they do, change it.

 

If anyone looks at the outgoing router logs, they will see what computers went out and what IP the computer went to.