Networking from Printer attached to Win XP PC to Win 7

I set up my windows 7 laptop to print wirelessly off my printer that is connected to a desktop windows xp computer. It worked flawlessly as per above instructions. My problem is that when I reboot or shut down my laptop the printer then shows offline and I have to reinstall it to get it to work. Any suggestions?

thanks a lot jimbo45

Hi everybody,

I just joined this forum to thank you jimbo45 for the simplest network printer sharing solution. It works for Win7 x64 and WinXP x64.

Thanks again man ...

Excellent guide, thank you.
I registered for this site just to say thanks here.

Hi. In 2018, answer #3 still works to share a printer in a W10 machine with a W7 machine. Thanks jimbo45!!