![]() Steam is perhaps the easiest of all digital gaming platforms when it comes to moving games around-better than GoG Galaxy, Ubisoft Connect, and certainly much better (for now at least) than the Epic Games Store. Simple! Okay, not really that simple, but I do this stuff all the time and it quickly becomes second nature.Īnyone with multiple PCs has probably ended up in a situation where they want to transfer a Steam game from one PC to another. Either way, if you browse to the Steam folder (or whatever other folder you want), you can now copy, paste, and delete files. ![]() You can even map the folder to a network drive if you want it to always be accessible. You should now see the "C" folder you shared earlier, which is the entire drive of your other PC. You can save it if you don't think any hackers or other 'bad' people will get on your PC on your home network, which is a reasonably safe bet. The first time, you might get a prompt for the user name and password. Hopefully the other PCs on your network show up, but without the extra step of sharing folders you likely won't be able to see anything on those PCs. So in my case, I type:Īlternatively, on the left side of Explorer, scroll down to Network and click that. Open Windows Explorer ( Win E), and in the address bar (which should say "Quick access" by default), type in the network name of the other PC, but with two backslash characters before the name. Now you're ready to access another PC over the network. This is SysAdmin 101 stuff, but it's very useful!) Congratulations! You're starting to become an IT professional! (I'm not really joking. Repeat all of these steps for each PC on your network. "ThisIsMyPassword" should be fine (except it's not now that I've publicly suggested it). It can bet a dumb password, but give it something you'll remember that isn't too easy to guess, so not "password" hopefully. Otherwise, open your C:\Users folder to find out the abbreviation for your user name (which you'll need to use for local accounts). You can use the full Microsoft account email address (eg, and password, if your PC is set up with a Microsoft account. Your user account needs a password, and you need to know the user account name. If your PC has multiple drives, you can do this for each drive you want to share. ![]() Again, I fly fast and loose so I give Authenticated Users the Full Control option. You should now have the share with access permissions set to Read for Authenticated Users. For the name, type "Authenticated Users" and press the Check Name button. Select "Everyone" and click the Remove button. Give the share a name (C is default), then press the Permissions button. Choose Properties, then click the Sharing tab, then click the Advanced Sharing button. Then right-click the drive you want to share (ie, C:). Find "This PC" on the left and click that. So, open Windows Explorer (shortcut: Win E). It's a home network, I don't invite people over and give them the network password unless I trust them, and I also require authentication to access shared folders. I fly fast and loose and just share the whole damn drive. Next, you need to share a folder on the PC. You're only half way through accessing PC's storage over your network, sadly. ![]() Go ahead and change that if you want, but you'll need to restart the PC for it to take effect. If you've never specified a name for your PC, it's probably something lame like "Desktop-A8LDK09" or something you'd never remember without looking it up. For this particular PC, the network name is "XPS15" (it's an old Dell XPS 15, I'm not that creative with my network names). You can see the network ID of the PC on the System page under Device Specifications, then Device name.
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