Homegroup with Vista and 7

I recently updated my PC to Vista desktop to 7, but my wife's cell phone is running Vista and my daughters come to receive laptops with 7.  Can I set up a homegroup to include all of us?
We all use a Netgear wireless router to access the internet - what I have to change any setting for this also?
Thank you very much
Chris

ChrisGu,

Homegroup requires that all users run Windows 7. If you want to share files with other versions of Windows, take a look at the following link: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/help/sharing-files-and-printers-with-different-versions-of-windows

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