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.