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when you connect your laptop to a new wi-fi network it's never enough for

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Windows to just connect you and be done with it it always asks you this rather

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cryptic question about whether you want your pc to be discoverable on the

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network with a warning that you shouldn't do it if you're sitting at a

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starbucks or something but many folks have never quite

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understood what picking one option over the other one means and even more

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frustrating is that if you click the wrong thing or click away from it it's

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very difficult to find that prompt again

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so basically what it comes down to is whether you want to use file and device

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sharing for devices that would commonly be something like a printer on your local

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network and lots of people never bother with this but it can be useful so let's

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have a look at what answering that question yes or no actually does and how

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to take advantage of the associated features if you tell Windows that you

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don't want your computer to be discoverable it won't let any other

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devices on the network see any files or devices that you're sharing either and

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this is simply meant as another layer of protection if you're on a strange

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network like one at an airport library

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or a tinder date's apartment who you just met like an hour ago but if you

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answer yes it will allow you to share those things on whatever network you're

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connected to so how do you get that set up well unfortunately Windows doesn't

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make it super obvious and the home group feature that was meant to make file

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sharing a bit more straightforward was axed in Windows 10 because ironically

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nobody used it the easiest way to share things locally is to create a folder

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containing everything that you'd like your friends or roommates or whoever to

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have access to and you can do this after creating and filling up the folder by

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right-clicking on it then going give access to then selecting specific people

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you'll see a menu pop up and in that drop-down box you can select everyone if

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you just want to share that folder broadly with everyone on your local

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network though it's very important to be sure to select

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what permission level you'd like to give other users you can select read if you

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don't want anyone modifying the files like if you're sharing a game cache or

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something then all you need to do is click share

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and you'll be given a path to send to the other users on your network just

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have them type it into the file explorer address bar a

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voila your files are now available network wide if instead you only want to

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share with certain people you can make another user account on your computer

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with a password and then type that username into the box in the sharing

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window then you can give those credentials to whomever you want to have

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access to the files and when they access the appropriate path they'll be asked to

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enter them but what about sharing a printer this is actually a little more

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straightforward even if the setting itself is buried a little bit

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go to your main Windows 10 settings app select devices then printers and

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scanners whichever printer is connected to your local pc should pop up you just

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select it and click on manage now annoyingly you don't get a nice big

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button that says share so instead you

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need to click on printer properties and in the box that pops up you should see a

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tab up top labeled sharing click it then check the box that says share this

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printer give it a funny name or just anything that people on your

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network will recognize then click ok now

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as long as the host computer is turned on anyone on the network should be able

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to add the printer from that same printers and scanners menu by clicking

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the printer i want isn't listed then entering the path in this format or just

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browsing for it now i know that there are more advanced and more secure ways

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to share files and printers across the network which i'm sure our viewers will

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be happy to discuss in the comments but hopefully this guide has demystified the

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topic a bit and will help get you up and running as for me

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i'm not gonna bother because i never learned to share as a kid and besides

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printer ink is expensive

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