I have Network Magic version 5.5.9195.0 that I bought this past January when I had a cisco 320 router. That router slowed my connections down to a crawl in about a week. I saw on line where they were having trouble with that router and I took it back and got this Belkin N+ wireless. Anyhow, Network Magic has not helped me with this problem.

When I click on 'trouble sharing folders' it goes through it's test and says the folder in question should be accessible. The windows 7 PC has not been perfect from the start. Before this, some times I would have to reboot it to see it on the newwork.

I've seen this question answered a lot and none of the other answers seem to help me. I want to share files between Windows 7 PCs without a password. Simple, right?

I have about an inch of paper I have printed out from things I find on google and none have helped so far. Thanks for the link but everyone keep trying for me please. In Control Panel>Network and Sharing Centre, buried among the options and below the screen so you have to scroll down, there is the option to remove the need for passwords in W7 networking. When I say 'networking', I don't mean using the Homegroup - leave that along and go for conventional networking. Before W7 can be an acceptable package for networking, they wil need to ease these restrictions - or make them easier to overcome - and I hope this comes out in SP1.

Not sure what you mean about not using Homegroup and go for conventional networking. What group do I use? I have checked the box to 'not use password' on there. Not sure what you mean about not using Homegroup and go for conventional networking.

What group do I use? I have checked the box to 'not use password' on there Windows 7 offers networking through a Homegroup but most people find that restrictive.

Below that in the left hand pane is Networking and if you set your network up in there, having ticked for no password, you should find things run better. However, I've noticed that the W7 Computer Browser Service doesn't scan as frequently as it did in XP so you may need to wait a little longer for other computers to show in the Workgroup. Don't be in too much of a rush to assume your settings are wrong and start changing them - give it twenty minutes, at least. Windows 7 offers networking through a Homegroup but most people find that restrictive. Below that in the left hand pane is Networking and if you set your network up in there, having ticked for no password, you should find things run better. However, I've noticed that the W7 Computer Browser Service doesn't scan as frequently as it did in XP so you may need to wait a little longer for other computers to show in the Workgroup.

Don't be in too much of a rush to assume your settings are wrong and start changing them - give it twenty minutes, at least. I'll try that out and let you know how I made out. I'm sorry if I offended anyone by posting here. Bi Fold Brochure Template Ms Publisher more. Since I feel that my question is related to the post, I thought best to ask here. All listed PCs are on the network/workgroup. When I created the network I renamed it and changed it on all listed PCs.

I don't know what you mean by eliminating the Win 7 Homegroup. The wired/shared Win 7 can see all other PCs.

For that matter all PCs can see each other. Again, my Win Vista and 2nd Win 7 can access the shared Win 7 but my 2 Win XP PCs cannot access the wired/shared Win 7 PC. When I try to access from either Win XP PC I am prompted for a password. Password is off on the shared Win 7. Annoying isn't it? As I recall I quit using a password on my Win7 machine in order to eliminate this 'problem'. Networked Win7 machines aren't always very good at being detected from XP machines and vice versa.

To be fair, with Win7 MS have tried to introduce sort of scaled back security for home machines, but networking is still designed for business when the vast majority of users now are at home, accessing their own machines and security really isn't the big issue that Windows makes it. All you have to do is go to your administrator name in control panel, which is under system users and see what your administrator name is. Type that in for the name and leave the password blank and his enter or ok and it will connect.