11Sharing Music, Movies, and Other Digital Media

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Word and Excel documents aren’t the only kinds of files you can share over a network. More and more users are using their home networks to share digital media files—music, videos, and photos—between multiple PCs in their home.

Digital media files are typically large files that take up a lot of disk space. If you have a large library of digital music or digital photos, you don’t want to duplicate that collection on every PC in your home. A better solution is to designate one ...

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