Posted on 04/14/2015 4:57:49 PM PDT by Chickensoup
Tech Ping: Bought the Computer, Trying to Do Wireless File Transfer HELP!!
Is there any help out there for Win7 among the Freepers? Wanted to file transfer from the old WIN 7 machine to the new WIN7 machine and the new computer wont recognize the old computer and vice versa. Both computers I think have the same name, could that be a problem.
The old computer has a home group and the new computer keeps trying to make its own home group, the hussy!
The last legs are rapidly approaching for old computer
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Is there any help out there for Win7 among the Freepers? Wanted to file transfer from the old WIN 7 machine to the new WIN7 machine and the new computer wont recognize the old computer and vice versa. Both computers I think have the same name, could that be a problem.
The old computer has a home group and the new computer keeps trying to make its own home group, the hussy!
The last legs are rapidly approaching for old computer
Last conversation was this: Question about Laptop Purchase Win8.1 with 1TB SATA vs Beloved Win7 No SATA??
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3277138/posts
Please help?
Could be they are too closely related for relations. Might result in compromised children.
Can’t help you too much, although I suspect a $10 cable might help and might speed data transfer time as well. Wireless has its uses, but sometimes wires are your friend.
FLASHDRIVE.
Cheap and easy.
When I did this with my new MacBookPro about three months ago, I did it through a FireWire and there was an assistant that walked me through the steps of which there were only a couple. I bet you Windows 7 has something exactly like that. I agree with the other poster. I think wired would be faster.
I bought it, but it is not cooperating.
Bad computer!
Google Windows Easy Transfer
Are you suggesting that that I own incestuous computers?
I cannot get them talk, never mind mate!
Cannot find a cable that wont take days to ship in and I have tomorrow off!!
Bookmark
But it is so far away and I have tomorrow off and I have a network!
Using a flash drive is the best/fastest way to go. I never do a wifi transfer wireless with any of the Microsoft products.
If you want to do it efficiently copy and paste docs, pics, music, etc to the flash drive.
Is that an online service?
Ok, this should be easy enough.
Yes, first give the computers different names. It might not matter, but it doesn’t hurt to rule that out as a conflict.
So, go right-click Computer on the Start Menu, hit Properties, then click Advanced System Settings on the left side menu of the window that comes up. Go to the Computer Name tab and hit the Change button. Change the name of one of the machines to something different, and then give it some workgroup name. Go to the other machine, do the same thing, but without changing the name, and just make sure it has the same workgroup name.
Now, theoretically, if both of your computers are connected to the same default gateway, they should be able to see each other under Computer > Network. If they still don’t detect each other, make sure they are both using the same default gateway (just in case you have some stray wireless router handing out IP addresses or something). You can check that by using Start > Run > cmd, then typing “ipconfig” in the window that comes up and hitting enter.
Assuming they are using the same default gateway, the other likely culprit is Windows Firewall. Go to Start > Control Panel > Windows Firewall and turn it completely off. You can turn it on again later after you are done transferring, but in my experience, the thing is only good for interfering with your own legitimate network traffic, and never seems to do much to stop real threats.
Assuming at this point you get the computers to see each other, you will also have to turn on file sharing for the folders on the computer you want to copy files from. Right click the folder in Computer or Windows Explorer and click Share With > Advanced Sharing, then click the Advanced Sharing button. Click the “Share This Folder” box, then click the permissions button and check to allow full control for the everybody group. Then, click ok twice to apply the settings.
I have googled windows easy transfer. The new computer doesn’t recognize the homegroup. Tries to make its own. Uncooperative little creep!
One should be named something different. Workgroup name should be the same. Share the hard drives on both PC’s.
IF I were to scoot to staples tomorrow what sort of flash drive would I get? Staples only does file transfers on own computers.
You tell it the workgroup name. It doesn’t tell you. Make it bend to your will.
Do you have google docs, skydrive (OneDrive) or iCloud accounts?
You could always upload/download it that way.
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