Windows 8 In Depth

Sharing Resources

In this section, we’ll show you how to share folders and printers with other users on your network.

You can elect to share your files with others in several different ways:

• If your computer is part of a homegroup, you can share your libraries with the homegroup. Other users will be able to see anything you save in a shared library.

• You can move files to a folder under \Users\Public, which is called the Public user profile. Here, anyone can access them automatically without you having to do anything else but enable sharing on the Public folder, as described shortly.

• You can elect to share any folder anywhere within your own user profile; the files or folders can reside anywhere within your own profile folder, which is ...