Windows 10: Windows 10 and Windows 7 File Sharing

I have 5 computers on a home network. One of the computers is Windows 10, the other 4 are Windows 7. All the Windows 7 computers are able to open and transfer files and folders. Even though the Windows 10 computer can see folders on the Windows 7 computers, and vise versa, when I try to transfer files or folders I get an error message saying: "Windows cannot access the folder. You do not have permission to access the folder. Contact your network administrator to request access." All was working fine until Windows updated to ver. 1803. I found this fix on a site but it didn't work.


The steps to re-enable the ability to view and access shared devices/computers are shown below and requires changing a Windows 10 1803 Services settings items called ‘Function Discovery Resource Publication’ and ‘Function Discovery Provider Host’

1. Access the Windows 10 Run dialog box via the Start Menu/Windows System/Run option or by pressing the Win + R keys on the keyboard. Note: One can skip Step 1 and 2 and proceed to Step 3 if accessing the Services settings via search(Cllick/Tap the Windows Start Menu icon and enter ‘Services’ then click or tap on Services(Dekstop app)
2. If using the Run dialog box – enter services.msc in the Run dialog box then press Return to load the Services dialog box window
3. Scroll down in the Services window and select and double click/tap on ‘Function Discovery Resource Publication’ item(aka FDResPub) to access the service’s properties
4. Change the ‘Startup type’ field entry from ‘Manual’ to ‘Automatic’ or ‘Automatic Delayed Start’
5. In the same properties dialog box ‘Service status’ section click on Start (to start the FDResPub service) – see pic below
6. Once the status indicator shows ‘Running’ Click ‘OK’ to close the Properties dialog box
7. Repeat Step 3 through 6 for the item called ‘Function Discovery Provider Host’ (See Footnote [A])
8. Close the Services window. Close all open windows and Restart the device.

Jerry

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Sharing Files Between Windows 7 & XP PC's?

here this might help u

Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP

 

Installing Windows 10 using Windows 7 key

Nope, you need to install Windows 10 first and make sure the Windows 7 key is transferred to your Windows account after you've installed Windows 10 (not quite sure how that works). I missed the last step and I could not activate Windows 10 after a re-install... Microsoft seem to have done everything they can to make it a PITA. Also, it's technically too late to do this now anyhow, as the upgrade offer has expired. But KMSPico works quite well...

As for getting rid of Windows, delete the Windows folder.