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Unfortunately, Nearby Sharing isn’t otherwise a replacement for Windows’

traditional network file-sharing system, for several reasons:

Any computers that aren’t running Windows 10’s April 2018

Update or later are shut out.

Nearby Sharing requires people at both computers; you can’t

grab a file from, for example, your own upstairs PC while you’re
on your laptop in the kitchen.

Nearby Sharing is only for transferring files; you can’t actually

open a file while it’s sitting on another PC.

In what Microsoft cleverly calls the “share any folder” method of file
sharing, you can make any folder available to other people on the network.
You can even set up elaborate sharing permissions that grant individuals
different amounts of access to your files.

Better yet, files you share this way are available to other people on the
network and other people with accounts on the same computer.

Here’s how to share a file or folder on your PC:

1. In a File Explorer window, open the window that contains the

files or folders you want to share. On the Ribbon’s Share tab,
choose the names of the people you want to share with.

The names of this PC’s other account holders all appear here, in

this cramped scrolling list (Figure 19-2, top). You can click to
share with one person.

Or, to share with more than one person, click “Specific people” to
open the “Choose people to share with” dialog box (Figure 19-2,

bottom). You wanted individual control over each account-holder’s
access? You got it.