Create or join HomeGroup or create Libraries in Windows 10

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In Windows Vista you had, Documents, Downloads, Photos, Videos, and Music. Whereas in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 you see, Personal Documents, Personal Downloads, Personal Photos, Personal Videos, and Personal Music. You volition also run into a change in naming in the Public User Contour: Public Documents, Public Downloads, Public Photos, Public Videos, and Public Music. These folder structure changes were fabricated to arrange a new Windows Explorer feature in Windows vii called Libraries.

Libraries can be accessed from the Navigation Pane of Windows 10/8/7 Explorer.

Libraries can be shared with other people on your Home network through a new network sharing feature in Windows called HomeGroup.

A HomeGroup makes it easier to share files and printers on a dwelling network. Yous can share pictures, music, videos, documents, and printers with other people in your homegroup. Other people tin can't change the files that you share, unless you give them permission to do and so.

When you ready a homegroup, you select the libraries and devices that you want to share. You can preclude specific files or folders from being shared, and you lot can share boosted libraries and devices later. Y'all can assistance protect your homegroup with a password, which you tin alter at any time.

UPDATE: HomeGroup has been removed from Windows ten version 1803.

How to Create your HomeGroup in Windows

Open up Command Panel > HomeGroup > Create Now.

The HomeGroup magician will prompt yous to create your HomeGroup and choose what to share in it. It too then generates a password which can be used to add other connected computers to your HomeGroup. One time the HomeGroup is created, your Pictures, Music, Videos, Printers folders, called your Libraries, are ready to exist shared with other computers when they join this HomeGroup.

How to Join a HomeGroup in Windows

When your other computer is continued to the same network where yous have created the HomeGroup, Windows 7 will prompt you nearly a HomeGroup bachelor to bring together. Click Join Now. Enter password. With this, you will have joined the HomeGroup and yous volition be able to choose what to share.

How to add an existing folder to the Library

Simply drag and driblet it there.

How to create a New library

Open Libraries, right-click in the binder and select New Library.

Proper name it. Open up it and click on Include a Binder to add your desired folders to this library.

If you don't like or use this characteristic, you tin always Disable Homegroup & Libraries in Windows.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a ten-twelvemonth Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the entire post & the comments first, create a System Restore Point before making whatever changes to your system & be careful about any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.