Home Sharing option is not showing up?

I have a desktop running Windows Vista and a laptop running Windows 7, both with the latest version of iTunes. I have Home Sharing turned on on both of them but the option for it is not showing up in iTunes. It worked once a few days ago (not sure why, as I can't remember doing anything differently) but I haven't gotten it to work since. I've tried turning it on and off on both computers, but no luck. Any suggestions?

Never mind, I figured out what I was doing wrong. You have to go to Edit, Preferences, Sharing, Share my library on my local network, and hit okay. And I think that iTunes must be open on both devices for it to work, but I'm not sure about that and it's too late at night for me to test it.

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