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in a shared folder on the Beefy Main Dell computer upstairs. Here’s what to

do:

1. Open any File Explorer window.

The navigation pane at left shows a Network heading. Click its

button, if necessary, to see icons for all the computers on the
network (Figure 19-5, top). The same navigation pane is available

in the Save and Open dialog boxes of your programs, too, making
the entire network available to you for opening and saving files.

If you don’t see a certain computer’s icon here, it might be turned

off, or off the network. It also might have network discovery turned
off; that’s the feature that lets a PC announce its presence to the
network (see the box on “UP TO SPEED Public Networks, Private
Networks, and How to Switch”).

And if you don’t see any computers at all in the Network window,
network discovery might be turned off on your computer.

2. Double-click the computer whose files you want to open.

If you’re on a corporate domain, you may first have to double-click
your way through some other icons, representing the networks in

other buildings or floors, before you get to the actual PC icons.