- [Instructor] Nearby sharing is a feature that
lets you send files and other content
directly from one Windows computer to another
completely wirelessly.
Both computers need to have Bluetooth capability
and the nearby sharing feature itself
must be turned on on both computers.
You can turn it on by going to Settings.
So I'll go to the Start menu to Settings.
On the left, we want to make sure
we're in the System category,
and then, we're looking for the sub category for
Nearby Sharing.
Now, this does work between Windows 10
and Windows 11 computers.
If you need to set it up on a Windows 10 computer,
you're looking for the sub category called
Shared Experiences in the System category in Settings.
But here on Windows 11, we're looking for Nearby Sharing.
So when you enable this, you can decide whether you want
this computer to be visible to anybody who is in range
or only your own computers.
I'm going to set it to be visible to everybody in range.
Also, you can set the default folder
where files will be saved
when you receive them through nearby sharing.
I've got this set to my Downloads folder
and I could click this button to change that,
but I'm just going to leave that set here.
So now, I've turned this on on both of my computers.
So now, I'm ready to send a file.
So I'm just going to close this.
Let's go to File Explorer
and I'll just go to my Documents folder
and find a file that I want to send.
I can click on it once to select it.
Then up at the top, there is this Share button
or you can right-click on it
and choose the Share button there.
So, there are a few different options here.
There's a shortcut to send this as an email attachment
or you can send it to some other application.
But up at the top is nearby sharing,
and it will look for other computers in range
which also have nearby sharing turned on.
And it found one, it found my other computer,
which is right here in this same room.
So I'm going to select that one to send the file.
And on the other computer, a notification will pop up
and somebody will need to accept or decline that file.
So I'm going to accept it on that other computer.
And then, it just takes some time for that file to transfer,
and we can see the progress right here.
So I'm going to skip forward in time
to when this is finished.
And now, that's finished.
In a moment, that notification will fade away.
Now, to see what it looks like when you receive a file,
I'm going to send a file from that other computer
to this one.
So on that other computer, I will right-click on a file.
I'll choose Share,
then choose the computer I want to send it to.
And here on this computer,
I get a notification telling me that
somebody is trying to send a file.
I could decline it if I don't want to receive it.
I could save it and open it directly,
but I just want to save it, so I'll click on that
and give it the time it needs to copy that file over.
Now that it's finished, I can go to File Explorer,
I can go to my Downloads folder,
and I can find the file that was just transferred over.
So, that's how you can send or receive a file,
but you can send other things
through nearby sharing as well.
Just look for the Share option.
For example, if you go to your web browser
and you have a webpage open that you want to share,
you can go to the Menu button up in the top right,
That's the button with three little dots.
And in this menu, there is the Share option.
And you can send this webpage to somebody
through nearby sharing and it will open
in their default web browser.
Or, we can go over to the Photos application.
I'll just go to the Start menu and open that.
You can click on a picture to view it.
Then up at the top, you can click the Share button
and you can send that to somebody through nearby sharing.
Now, if you share a picture like this from the Photos app,
it will not automatically show up
in the Photos library on the receiving computer.
It will just send that picture as a file
that will be saved in the default Download folder,
just like any other file.
So those are just a few common examples.
Keep an eye out for a Share button,
which will show up in lots of other applications.
Most of the time, if there is a Share button like that,
it will include nearby sharing as one of the options.