windows 7 xp network

mollymoo · 6 Nov 2009 at 12:56

I've just installed windows 7 and the other 2 computers in the house are xp, how do I go about setting up a network for all 3? I have googled about but still have no idea, I think this maybe because I have no idea about windows 7

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

mollymoo · 6 Nov 2009 at 15:22

one of the xp machines is asking for a password and username to access me, and they can only find me when they do a search for me and I can only find them if I turn the firewall off on my pc, seems that this windows 7 is more trouble than it's worth

mollymoo · 6 Nov 2009 at 16:26

sorted just takes about ten mins to turn up for some reason

mollymoo · 6 Nov 2009 at 16:39

theheyes said:
Make sure your local network is set to "private" otherwise a lot of the sharing and discovery services are turned off making the job more difficult.

To be honest I've just installed it today and wouldn't know where to look for that