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Use nearby sharing between computers - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Windows 11 Essential Training
Use nearby sharing between computers
- [Instructor] Nearby sharing is a feature that lets you send files and other content directly from one Windows computer to another completely wirelessly. Both computers need to have Bluetooth capability and the nearby sharing feature itself must be turned on on both computers. To turn it on, you should go to Windows settings, on the left, select the system category, then we're looking for the subcategory called nearby sharing. Now this does work between Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers, but if you need to set it up on a Windows 10 computer, you're looking for the subcategory called shared experiences. But here on Windows 11, we're looking for nearby sharing. When you enable this, you can decide whether you want this computer to be visible to anybody else in range or only your own computers. I have this set to be visible to anybody in range. And below that, you can set the default folder where your files will be…
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