How to share files and printers at home?

This is my first post on the Internet! haha! a little bit excited in posting it. let's get straight to the point.

Many of you should have more than 1 computer at home and you may want to share files, music and printers with other computers. Here is a step by step tutorial in helping you to share resources among your computers.

A. What do you need?

• a router or a modem with routing function
• 2 or more computers (with windows xp)
  

B. Creating a Workgroup

• right click My Computer > select Properties > go to Computer Name > click Change
  
• give a name to your computer
• select Workgroup and give a name to it
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• repeat the above steps for other computers by giving them different computer names but the same Workgroup name

C. Share a folder

• now right click the folder or printer you wish to share with other computers and select Properties > select Sharing
• give the folder a Share name then click Apply
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D. Go to the share folder from another computer

• click Start and select Run
• type the following into the box: \\computername\sharefolder
  
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• click OK
  

E. Drag and Drop

• by now, you should be able to see the contents of the share folder from another computer
• just drag and drop to download those files!
  

F. Tips

• doing the above at home is easy but you may encounter some errors when working with the above steps, the followings may be blocking you from sharing, check them out.
• check your Windows Firewall settings
  
• open My Computer > select Tools > Folder Options > Views > uncheck Use simple file sharing