Homegroups. Anyone using them?

Just wondering if anyone has tried out homegroups yet in Win7. If so what has your experience been like so far?

The best information I could find about them was here http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/12/30/at-home-with-homegroup-in-windows-7.aspx its 9 months old, but still some what informative, if only in an infomercial kind of way.

No I don't want the extra hassle. I like my LAN the way it's been from XP or Vista.

I use a Homesystem in my house. Only my desktop and girlfriends laptop on it, but we can just drag/drop files from each other computers and it allows her to use the printer plugged into my computer without her having any drivers. Really liking it so far. Took all of 15 seconds if that to set up.

Audioaficionado said:

No I don't want the extra hassle. I like my LAN the way it's been from XP or Vista.

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I've been playing with homegroups this morning. It seems like homegroups are really just a method for non computer savy people to get the same functionality that XP/Vista had. I do like the simplicity of setting up the printer sharing though.

I'm looking into setting up the Libraries feature right now. It may be an indepent feature from how you set up your networking. I do think this is going to be an improvement over how I did file sharing in Vista. Having libraries wrap all the different locations I store pictures into one view that I or my wife's user account can see from either of our two computers will be a nice upgrade.

I still cannot get Widows 7 to access a Windows XP machine, even though the same machine Windows 7 is on can do so if I boot it into Windows XP. http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=616394