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    Windows 7 Windows Media Player Media Sharing

    Hi everyone. I have all my music and such on my desktop computer running Windows Vista, and I just bought a laptop running Windows 7 where I want to stream my files to. When I first set up my laptop i could stream from the Vista computer to the 7 computer, but it is not detected in wmp anymore...
  2. Windows 7 All my media sharing options are greyed out.

    Hello all, I'm running Windows7 Ultimate RTM build 7600 - Assigned to Homegroup I've looked through about as much of these threads as I can today, so hopefully this isn't a double post. I'm trying to share my media to my xbox360 via my wifi network at home. Problem I've been having is...
  3. Windows 7 Windows 7 & WMP 12 "play to" feature

    Okay I have three computers all running Windows 7 and WMP 12. I followed all the steps in the documentation to configure sharing and streaming, both in Windows and WMP, on all three computers. I can access everything I've shared on any of the computers, and WMP shows my other computers media...
  4. Windows 7 Need help to stream media without using Media Center.

    I like to stream my music to my xbox360 just through the normal xbox interface. I hate going into media center so I usually just enable media sharing. But ever since I jumped onto the RTM build of windows 7 (previously BETA) all my sharing options are grayed out, can't select anything. I jump...
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    Windows 7 Media distribution with Win7

    I'm looking to do a little media distribution in my house and believe the Windows 7 will give me the ability to do what I want, but I'm not sure whether I want to use media center or media player or some combo of the two. Here's what I want to do. I have my media sitting on a windows home...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7/ Xbox 360 Streaming

    Okay, I've done a lot of searching and can find almost no info regarding this... hopefully someone may have an idea. My Windows 7 machine has streamed music to my 360 flawlessly through the Xbox dashboard since day one... Now, out of the blue, my xbox constantly loses connectivity with my PC...
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    Windows 7 Share Specific Files to Network Device But Not to Homegroup?

    I have a Homegroup configured on my Windows 7 install and I've got music, movies and images that I share across the different computers in my house and the other user accounts on the PC. I've got MKV files (soccer matches mostly) that I've converted to be played on the PS3 and I'm wondering if...
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    Windows 7 Semi Succesful Dual Boot with OSX 10.4 WITHOUT BOOTCAMP

    So, my little brother got tired of his inferior machine and gave it to me. After upgrading the HDD to a 320GB 5400 RPM WD Scorpio Blue, i also gave it a total of 2GB DDR RAM, and decided i liked Windows 7 so much, i wanted to dual boot, so that i may keep OSX (for clients) and still work this is...
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    Windows 7 Libraries on other hard drives?

    Windows libraries are cool because if you have your PS3 connected you share you media files and watch them on your tv or listen to them thru your suround sound... only problem is I have my Windows 7 installed on 80 gig hard drive that I had planed on only using for operating system and important...
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    Windows 7 Zero success with Streaming to XBox 360

    Hey everyone, I'm on the verge of tears over this! I recently installed 7 (x64) RC on my desktop which I had been using, among other things, to stream movies, music etc. to my XBox 360. Since installing 7 I've had no joy getting the XBox to even acknowledge the existence of the PC, either...
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    Windows 7 Is it possible to have an XP system join the 7 Homegroup?

    I was going to print something from my 7 test rig, and found I cannot access my printers on my network. My network is all XP machine's, and though I can find the homegroup for 7 on here, I cannot access it. I cannot find any XP rigs through the 7 machine, although all of the XP rigs have...
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    Windows 7 Streaming Avi's To xbox 360 dashboard

    Has anyone had any luck with this using the xbox dashboard? I had no problems doing this using vista/media player11 but have not been able to get it to work since installing windows 7. I set up media sharing on my home network and configured media player 12 for my folders. It finds my folder...
  13. Windows 7 Damn you, Microsoft

    Whenever I think about how Microsoft is trying to present networking in Vista and Windows 7, I get so angry I can't even formulate a proper post asking for help. I mean, what with all this crap about homegroups and public/private networking, having several different ways to go about setting...