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How to get Windows 7 and Windows XP talking on the network

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Wednesday June 10, 2009
You may have installed

Windows 7 RC1

on one of your computers. You may have put it on one of your laptops. It's also possible that you've created a few

Windows 7 RC1 virtual machines

. At the same time you probably have a machine on your network that's running XP. Here's how you can easily

share files

between all of them.

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Show Notes

- Download Windows 7 RC1 here.

- First thing to do is make sure all of your computers are in the same Workgroup.

- Default workgroup set by Windows is WORKGROUP. You may have changed it.

- In Windows 7 click Start then Control Panel.

- In Control Panel click on Network and Internet and then click on Network Sharing Center.

- Over on the right click on Change advanced sharing settings.

- Click the button next to Turn on network discovery.

- Click the button next to Turn on file and printer sharing.

- Click the button next to Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write in the Public Folders.

- If you don't want users on your network to have to enter password then click the button next to Turn off password protected sharing.

- Click Save Changes.

- Now, click Start and then Computer.

- On the right side click Network and you'll see all of the PC's running XP, Windows 7 RC1, Vista, and more.
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