subject: How to Create a Homegroup and Join a New Computer To It in Windows 7 [print this page] How to Create a Homegroup and Join a New Computer To It in Windows 7
The Homegroup which allow you to share the files between machines is one of the useful new features in Windows 7. Now I will show you how to creat a Homegroup and join a new computer which running Windows 7 to a Homegroup.
Note: In this case we'll assume you have a desktop and a laptop both running Windows 7 and a Homegroup wasn't created during installation. We'll create the Homegroup on the desktop computer, then join the laptop to it.
How to Create a Homegroup
Firstly, on the desktop computer, type homegroup into the search box in the Start Menu and hit Enter.
In the poping up window click on the "Create a homegroup" button.
In the new screen select what you want to share with the other computers in the homegroup and hit Next.
The Homegroup is created and a password will be generated that other computers will need to join it.
Now you may need to wait a few moments for the sharing of the libraries of the Homegroup are completed (The items under Share libraries and printers will be grayed out until the the sharing is completed.).
Change Homegroup Password
You can certainly keep the password which Windows created for the Homegroup just now, or can choos e to change it to something that's easier for you to remember.
Just click on "Change the password" under "Other homegroup actions".
In the next screen type in the new password you want to use and click Next.
You will get a screen letting you know it was successfully changed, then click "Finish" to complete your configuration.
Join Computer to Homegroup
After we established the Homegroup.What we need to do next is to join another computer to it.
On the laptop click on Start and type homegroup into the search box and hit Enter.
In the new screen you will see a description of the Homegroup we created just now. Just click the "Join now" button.
Then you need to decide what to share on the laptop with the Homegroup and click Next.
Type in the password to join the Homegroup and click Next.
Provided the network connection is established and you entered in the correct passwordyou'll get the following screen telling the join was successful.
Now you can open up Windows Explorer and should see the Homegroup you just joined in the Navigation Pane and be able to share files, folders, and printers.
Also on the laptop, if you go to Start Devices and Printers
There you can see the printer which is connected to the desktop and can set it as your default printer.
Now you can enjoy sharing files or painters pretty easy, even you can share media libraries in Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center to Stream Media using the Play To option.
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