![]() Best Windows 7 Registry Tweaks and Tips-n-Tricks Which Work in Windows 8 and Later. UPDATE: The tips and tricks mentioned in this tutorial will also work for Windows. I use both Macs running Mavericks and Windows PC running 8.1 on a daily basis and Mac doesn’t put Windows to shame in many areas. File sharing between Macs is one. ![]() Set up Windows 8 as a home server. If you have multiple PCs in your home or small office, you can save time and look professional by storing your documents and media on one PC and using network sharing to access them across all your computers and devices. This prevents you from having to store duplicate copies of files and reduces confusion when trying to find which PC a file is stored on. Additionally, you only really need to worry about backing up one PC (though for safety's sake you should always back up everything on a regular basis.). Setting up your own Windows server is pretty simple: Microsoft actually created a Windows edition designed specifically for centralized storage and backup called Windows Home Server, but it was discontinued in 2. Thankfully, Windows 8 sports new storage and backup features that make it uniquely suitable as an impromptu file server, and I'll walk you through the setup process in this article. Along the way we'll learn about the new Storage Spaces feature, file sharing with Home. So now that Windows 8 is coming out, you’ll be happy to know you can join it to your existing Windows 7 homegroup if you like. Windows 7 introduced the whole. How to Install Windows Vista. Want to upgrade your old computer to Windows Vista? Maybe your computer is running slow and you want to wipe it and start from scratch. ![]() Groups, streaming media via the network, backing up your files, and remotely accessing your storage when you’re away. Creating Storage Spaces.
How to Disable “Homegroup” Feature in Windows 7 and Later? Recently an AskVG reader asked how can he remove "Homegroup" icon from My Computer window in Windows? You can go about that two ways, if you have Windows Management Framework 5 or. Windows 8 includes a new file storage feature called Storage Spaces, and it's designed to protect against hard drive failures by making copies of your data and spreading it across multiple drives. It's a more cost effective, user- friendly solution than RAID drives and works much like the beloved Drive Extender feature in early editions of Windows Home Server. You create and manage Storage Spaces via the Control Panel. From there, create a storage pool and divide it up into one or more Storage Spaces, which will then appear and work just like any other drives in Windows. If you have two or more physical drives in the pool, you won’t lose your data if one (or even two) drives fail. You can also add more drives to the pool to expand its size at any time, making this a great way make use of any old storage drives you have laying around. If you need further help or step- by- step directions, refer to a past article on Storage Spaces. Share your files on the network. Next you likely want to share your files, any printers you have attached, and any Storage Spaces you’ve created on the network so you can access them from other PCs and devices. If all your PCs are running Windows 7 or 8 consider using the Home. Group feature, which lets you share your Libraries (Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos) and printers. And since the Home. Group is password- protected, you don’t have to worry about guests and visitors accessing your files. If you need help creating your Home. Group refer to a past article, which is written for Windows 7 but details a process that works roughly the same for Windows 8 users. And if you need help modifying or creating Libraries, we have a past article about that too! So you’ll have to manually share drives and folders (discussed in yet another past article) on your Windows 8 server so all PCs can access them. And if all you need is a way to easily share documents and files, congratulations! You're all done and your new network is ready to rock. You’ll see an option for this when browsing files in the traditional Windows desktop and in the new metro- style Windows 8 apps. You can also remotely view and play media from other PCs via Windows Media Player: you’ll see media libraries appear on the bottom left for PCs that are configured to share their media. And on other non- Windows devices, you may be able to browse and play/view your shared media. For your Windows 8 server and other Windows PCs, open Windows Media Player, select Stream on the toolbar, and choose “Allow remote control of my player” and “Automatically allow devices to play my media”. Once you install the Windows desktop app onto your PC you can remotely access any file on it via the Sky. Drive website or on your mobile devices. You can also copy files to your Sky. Drive drive so you can more easily share it among your devices or with others. Though Microsoft removed some backup features (like the ability to create complete backup or to backup files from any location) in Windows 8, its new File History feature provides a more automated and user- friendly solution. By default it’s set to save snapshots every hour for changed files. So if a file becomes corrupt, deleted, or you’d like a previous version of the file you can restore it. If you have other Windows 8 PCs and are using Home. Group for sharing, you can enable the “Recommend this drive” option in the Advanced Settings of File History on your “server” PC. For PCs with Windows 7 and earlier you can also utilize their automated backup systems and just point it to the network location of your impromptu server PC. If everything is working correctly, you should be master of your digital domain and have full control of your own small network with media streaming, data sharing and data redundancy at basically no extra cost. To comment on this article and other PCWorld content, visit our Facebook page or our Twitter feed.
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