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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, les, and printers among connected devices.
Joining a homegroup is easy.
Windows 7 for You: Simpli es Everyday Tasks
Easy to Connect PCs and Manage 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 le from your laptop in the bedroom to the printer in the den, you probably e-mail the le from
one PC to another or transfer it on a USB drive. And if you need to nd a le but don’t know which PC
it’s stored on, it can take hours to search each one.
HomeGroup, a new feature in Windows 7,
makes it easy to share your les 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.