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HomeGroup
What Is home group
• You can share pictures, music, videos, documents, and printers with other people in
your homegroup.
• You can help protect your homegroup with a password
• After you create or join a homegroup, you select the libraries that you want to share.
• You can prevent specific files or folders from being shared.
Create the homegroup
• created homegroup
• If a homegroup already exists on your home network, you can join it.
• Step :
– Open HomeGroup by clicking the Start button
– clicking Control Panel
– typing homegroup in the search box
– clicking HomeGroup.
– On the Share with other home computers running Windows 7 page,
click Create a homegroup, and then follow the instructions.
Add other pc to homegroup
• After someone on your network creates a homegroup, the next step is to join it. You'll
need the homegroup password, which you can get from the person who created the
homegroup.
• Step :
- Open HomeGroup by clicking the Start button
- clicking Control Panel
- typing homegroup in the search box
- clicking HomeGroup.
- Click Join now, and then follow the steps on your screen.
Access homegroup file
• PCs that belong to your homegroup will appear in Windows Explorer.
• To access files or folders on other homegroup PCs :
• Click the Start button , and then click your user name.
• In the navigation pane (the left pane), under Homegroup, click the user
account name of the person whose files you want to access.
• In the file list, double-click the library you want to access, and then double-
click the file or folder you want.
Share Printer
• Printers that are connected with a USB cable can be shared with a homegroup. After
the printer is shared, you can access it through the Print dialog box in any program,
just like a printer that's directly connected to your PC.
• To share your printer with the homegroup :
• Open HomeGroup by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel,
typing homegroup in the search box, and then clicking HomeGroup.
• Click Install printer.
• Select the Printers check box, and then click Save changes
• .
• To automatically connect to a homegroup printer
• Click the Windows found a homegroup printer message that appears.
To manually connect to a homegroup printer
• On the PC the printer is physically connected to, click the Start button ,
click Control Panel, type homegroup in the search box, and then click HomeGroup.
• Make sure the Printers check box is selected.
• Go to the PC you want to print from.
• Open HomeGroup by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel,
typing homegroup in the search box, and then clicking HomeGroup.
• Click Install printer.
• If you don't already have a driver installed for the printer, click Install driver in the
dialog box that appears.
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