

Start menu - Control Panel - User Accounts and Family Safety - User Accounts. And all of a sudden win 7 could access my win 10 pc.īUT it was only one way win 7 > win 10. I entered that info into the Win 7 "Network Login Details" popup. Mine is my gmail email address and the password is the password for my gmail account. It is the Microsoft account login in name. Here you should see "Your Info" Administrator, on your right. I was thinking what I have my pcs open for anyone to mess with so No Login name and password? The block was a PopUp that wanted Windows Network Login details. Now I have set up the systems to see each other BUT they would not talk to each other. Now I was having soooo much trouble that I was about to try installing network cards to both machines and hard wire them. Ok I have Win 7 Ultimate 64 and Win 10 Pro 64 (version 17134) before the 1803 upgrade)). I know this because I can't do it that way on Windows 10 Home or Pro Well Heads up this isn't the for sure fix. I hate homegroup and want to share old school. If I ever have the time and energy, I will have another bash at getting the networking to work sometime in the future because I hate to admit defeat but right now it's not worth the frustration for what I need. This app is free and works perfectly except it doesn't allow folder transfers and file size is limited to 100MB for some reason. I considered an alternative - Microsoft Garage's MouseWithoutBorders. Multiplicity is a paid app with a 30-day free trial I quite often have a Windows 7 and a Windows 10 desktop connected via ethernet to my router, as well as one Windows 10 wi-fi tablet running at the same time. This was basically all I was trying to do by the traditional networking process. I've taken an easy way out and installed Stardock's Multiplicity program which allows the use of a single mouse and keyboard to be shared seamlessly by up to 4 PCs AND allows files and folders of any size to be copied or cut and pasted freely between I made sure all my firewall and AV programs were off, network discovery on and so on but all I got was that blasted error message every time I tried to "join" the Homegroup. I'd make sure the files and folders were shared, map network drives to the other PC's shared resources and bingo! Now, all I keep getting is the "Windows no longer detects a homegroup. It always seemed to be a snip when my PCs were My attempts to do the same thing also failed miserably and I don't see why it should be so difficult either. I know your post was sometime ago now but I thought I'd post my recent experience with this issue. Networking them together has failed miserably and I can find no help in the help file or on the web.Ĭan someone advise me the simplest way to share a folder between the two computers please? It really should be easy to do.

I have a windows 10 and a windows 7 computer at home.
