All,I worked a bit with the Homegroup and can't see much future for it given the type of home users I encounter as an outside tech support person, because it requires Windows 7 for all who want join the Homegroup.What a typically see in a home usersituation is something like this:Dad - gets the oldest desktop PC because he is usuallyat work and doesn''t need (or get) much machine.It could be as old as Windows 2000 or some version of XP.Mom - may have a desktop with XP or perhaps an underpowered laptop in the kitchen (because it fits there) and it may have Vista.Male Kid 1 - if pre-teen or teen will have own laptop, usually XP or probably Vista, great for chat and games.Female Kid 2 - if pre-teen or teen will have own MacBook with stickers and decals on the lid.Given that most families keep various Windows machines for YEARS I doubt you will ever get a household to have enough Windows 7 machines at the same time to get the benefits of the Homegroup setting.So, Homegroup should either accommodate earlier versions of Windows, or at least Vista with an add-on, or this will be an unused application.Thoughts? Comments?Gib

I agree wholeheartedly.

I have installed windows 7 to play with, the best bit created a new netwok, it could see all my other computers on the network brillant, accept thatthe other computers on the network cannot see or talk back to it, now then can i rename homegroup so its the same as my network, in which case How, i've fiddled with it abit to no avail, so do i have to rename my own network to homegroup to get them talking, played some more got fedup went to bed regards don