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Simple file sharing  in Windows 7  is pretty easy and common to be used to share file/folder with other users that use Windows XP, Vista or 7 in same workgroup. Due to other users are allowed to access the shared file/folder without doing authentication with username and password, and so we call it simple file sharing. However please don’t enable this simple file sharing when your computer is connected to public network (at library, airport, restaurant, etc), because the other public users can also access the shared file/folder without authentication after you have enabled it. It’s not safe! This is the way to do simple file sharing in Windows 7: 1) First you need to confirm that you have enabled file and printer sharing on network card. Let’s do a quick check. Go to  Start  and click on  Control Panel . Proceed to click  View network status and tasks  in Control Panel window. 2) Network and Sharing Center window will appear, after...

How do you connect 2 computers sometimes for file or printer sharing? Ha! It's pretty easy! You only need 1  crossover cable  and 2  network cards . This is wired connection approach to connect 2 computers directly without involving other network devices, such as network router or switch. It’s effective and simple way if you want to connect the computers temporary. If the network card on computers supports auto MDI/MDIX feature, you could use crossover or straight through network cable to connect both computers. If not, crossover cable is needed! Let see how to do it here: Plug in network card each to computer and then connect the network cable to both computers’ network card. Yep.. we have finished the physical setup. Now let’s proceed to install network card driver on each computer if you have not done yet and also make sure the driver is installed properly. After installing network card driver, here comes the network configuration, let’s create ...

How to network two computers using dial up internet connection, so that the dial up connection can be shared with other computer? It’s not difficult to do it if you have network adapter on both computers! there are some disadvantages by using this approach. Firstly, the main computer that shares dial up connection needs to be up whenever second computer needs to have access to Internet. Secondly, the Internet connection performance might not be that good after sharing since dial up connection only support up to 56Kbps of bandwidth. The better way is to subscribe DSL or Cable broadband Internet connection, after that set up a network by using a wireless or wired Ethernet router. If you are interested, can take a look on this  wireless network  or  wired home network setup tutorial . Anyway, if dial up connection is the only way you have to connect to Internet and you wish to have this type of sharing, then you can still do it. The main idea is that you need to enable...