I thought new Windows 7 would be easy…. I have two Windows 7 PCs. I use PC1 to create a homegroup and have PC2 to join the homegroup. I followed the video posted on Microsoft website and thought it would be easy to share a folder between two PCs. After I did all that, I can see both PC-1 and PC-2 under full network map (PC-1 and PC-2 > Switch > Router > Internet). Now I went to PC-1, select a folder, go to share with and share with specific people. In Microsoft’s video, you can see all people in your homegroup and select one of them but I see nobody. I don’t even have “to find one” option under the drop down menu. I searched help and it says I have to create an online account. If it is required step, why Microsoft didn’t put that in the video? Anyway, I finally manually added PC1 by typing “PC1” (computer name not user account) and successfully share a folder and I can see that folder from PC1. Again, I asked myself, it I have to do it manually, why Microsoft didn’t include that in the video? The story continues. When I went back to PC1, double click the folder, it says access is denied. Again, according to MS help, I have to turn off password protection and join on line account. At this point, I’m so freaking confused. First, my friend can easily do that without turning password protection off. Second, again, if it is required, why didn’t Microsoft included that in the tutorial? Can someone help? All I wanted is to have a share folder….

Hi, When creating or joining HomeGroup, you can share the following items on the machine: Pictures, Music, Videos, Documents and Printers. If the items cannot be shared, please temporarily disable firewall and test the issue again. If you would like to share certain folder, you can move the folder to Documents or manually share it. To manually share the folder, please refer to the following article. File and Printer Sharing Thanks, Novak

I am having the same problem as the OP. The homegroup solution does allow me to share, but I really want to do it by specific people as I dont want my kids to accidently delete pictures or music. I do want My wife to be able to upload pictured to the main PC from her machine. I was hoping to use teh Share with Specific people method to set read for the kids and read/write for my wife and myself. Does anyone know how to get the Share with specific people to work as shown in the first video here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Share-files-with-someone