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Use Nearby sharing between computers

Use Nearby sharing between computers

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Use Nearby sharing between computers

- [Instructor] Nearby Sharing is a feature that lets you send files and other content directly from one Windows 10 computer to another completely wirelessly. Now both computers need to have Bluetooth capability and the Nearby Sharing feature itself must be turned on on both computers. To get that set up, we'll go into Settings. So I'll go to the Start menu, click the gear button to go into Settings. I need to go to the System category. Then on the left, I'll go to Shared experiences. And we can see some options here for Nearby sharing. Now on all of your computers where you want to send files, you need to have this turned on. Then you should go to this menu where you can choose which other computers will be able to see your computer. I like to set this to Everybody nearby, so anybody in range will be able to see my computer through Nearby Sharing. Then optionally, if you want to change the default folder where files go…

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