Windows 8 In Depth

Adding a Network Folder to a Library

You can actually link other people’s shared folders right into one of your own libraries so that their content appears and is searchable along with your own, although doing so is not quite as simple as you might hope, and doing so can make opening the Library folder take a long time. If you really do want to do this, use the following procedure:

1. View one of your libraries (for example, your Documents library) in File Explorer.

2. In the ribbon bar’s Home tab, select Properties. Then, under the list of locations, click Add.

3. In the Include Folder in Documents window, locate the folder you want to add, from one of two places:

• If the folder you want to add belongs to another user on your own computer, ...