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Turn on Fetch

Here’s how you prepare the home PC for remote invasion:

1. Right-click the OneDrive icon in the system tray.

See Figure 3-16, top.

2. From the shortcut menu, choose Settings.

The OneDrive Settings dialog box appears (Figure 3-16, middle).

3. On the Settings tab, turn on “Let me use OneDrive to fetch any
of my files on this PC.” Make sure “Start OneDrive
automatically when I sign in to Windows” is also turned on.

Click OK.

And that’s it! You can now tap into everything on that PC from the
road, as shown in Figure 3-17; read on.

Access the PC back home

Open any web browser on any kind of computer. Go to onedrive.com and
sign into your Microsoft account. On the left side, under the heading PCs,
you see the names of any PCs for which you’ve turned on the Fetch feature.

If you click your PC’s name, you’ll see that you can actually begin opening
folders on it, from thousands of miles away. Voilà!

Note

The first time you perform this stunt, you’re asked to “Sign in with a security code.” Click Text or
Email, and specify your phone number or email address so Microsoft can send you a confirmation
code. (You wouldn’t want some evil villain to rummage through your PC, now, would you?)

Once the text or email arrives, copy the code it contains into the box on the web page before you.
(Turn on “I sign in frequently on this device” if you don’t want to have to repeat this code
business every time you use Fetch.) Click Submit.