Windows 7 for You: Simplifies Everyday Tasks
Easy to Connect PCs and Manage Devices
Easy to Connect PCs and Manage Devices
More than half of all U.S. households have more than one PC. If you live in one of those households, you may have experienced trouble setting up a network or found that the PCs in your home don’t work together as well as they could. Even when your PCs are successfully networked together, sharing content and devices such as printers doesn’t happen automatically. Windows 7 makes it much easier to connect the technology in your home, and to share media, folders, files, and printers among connected devices.
HomeGroup
Do you have multiple PCs in your home but only one printer? If you’re like most people, when you need to print a file from your laptop in the bedroom to the printer in the den, you probably
HomeGroup, a new feature in Windows 7, makes it easy to share your files and print- ers with other Windows 7 PCs in your home. Connecting these PCs is a painless process because they identify each other automati- cally when they’re on the same network. If a homegroup is available on your home network, you can join it by entering your homegroup password. If no homegroup exists, you can easily create one.
Joining a homegroup is easy.
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