You Should Know About the "Public" Folders in Windows

When you said "My Documents", it made me realise that there are now 18 year-olds who grew up using Windows that never knew "My Documents" and "My Pictures" because they dropped the "My" when Vista came out....

THANK YOU THIO JOE! I work in IT as a sysadmin & literally just yesterday was doing a server migration and was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why a folder wasn't being shared. It's so much more complicated than it needs to be imo.

THEOJOE! I would love to see a video just on "permissions" in Windows. I am the sole user of my computer and still sometimes I get "you don't have access to this file" to a file on my hard drive which is crazy. I'm sure there are easy ways to make this not happen but I still find the whole subject

I thought this video would be about something else, but it's still cool. As an IT dude for a semi-large company. I can tell you this. The public desktop folder. is on my top 5 list of folders I use most. Simple because of how many domain users sometimes sign into a single computer and all users that might need one or more shortcuts, programs, or documents stored on the desktop. Yup, some programs only install their icons on the installed user's desktop, not the public desktop.

2:45 those default shares ARE actually sharing the drives. Since they end with $ sign they are hidden inside network explorer but if you actually enter \\IP\C$ you do get the root of the C drive. You need to login with account that has admin privileges but they do actually work. I use those in a domain all the time

Me and some friends I lived with growing up used to use the Public Folder back in 2003-04 as a quick and dirty method to copy files to each other's machines. Was awesome for making sure we all had the same characters in Q3A's Bid For Power mod

I remember when "Documents" was called "My Documents" and "This PC" was called "My Computer"

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joe, long time viewer. years ago,under a diff yt acct, i explained my disappointment in your professionalism and brains and delivery and personallity being wasted with your prank/joke videos. you didnt reply calling me a troll or a jerk but instead ,look what you chose to become. you have helped countless people and if you have any idea how your actions ripple in this pond of life,you brightened so many home atmospheres. not to turn this into some dragged out country song,so, THANK YOU THIO JOE. may you one day see how appreciated you are. i remember the video you made long ago acknowledging that many people recognized your potential and you explained you would stop deceiving and instead HELP others. you did exactly that

this was an in-depth look at how to network computers and share files on windows and well done. the title doesn't really reflect that however lol.

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Thanks for this, it cleared up a couple of things for me, but I would really be interested in the next video. I have had my two computers hooked up over the network a few times but sometimes, for no apparent reason, I loose connection. I suspect that whenever I do a windows update that it changes some of my network settings and at the moment I can't connect and I am not sure why. Could you address whether windows update changes settings or not in your next video please. Thanks for all your valuable videos.

I remember I shared a file from my laptop to my brother's PC using that Advanced sharing menu and the Network folder following a video. I think the video called it a 'local FTP server', but it's been long and I can't tell. Never really understood what I was doing, so I'll be glad if anyone can share some guides for what this network sharing on Windows actually is and how it works. Seems like a cool thing from what I can understand.

0:18 Man smiling and handing over his computer to a thief. Sharing is caring this 2024 lezzzgow ❤

1:05 Joe-Nas is an amazing name

The public folders are actually the reason why if you turn hide system files off, there is 2 desktop.ini files on the desktop, one on the user specific desktop, and one on the public desktop.

Used to need to help my mom photoshop some stuff quite frequently. But the Adobe CC licence is on my laptop. Cannot be bothered to email or use USB drive to move files back and forth. So I set up a folder on her laptop to share on LAN, and I can just open file remotely from my laptop

3:11 That's quite a dangerous thing to say... That depends on how the router is configured. For most people, this will be true. But, for example, if it's really just a plain router (no NAT, firewall etc.) these paths are shared on the whole Internet :)

8m in he explains better than I could. That two layer of protection thing has caused many a headache at the MSSP I work at. Just turn off permissions for 'Everyone' unless you really need them on for some reason. //applies mostly to IT peeps, not home users// If you do turn on sharing then please make your network security people happy and turn off the 'Everyone' group. Make custom groups for those that need the folder access. If 'Everyone' is enabled, but the 'Guest' acount is unauthorized then when an otherwise authorized user logs into the other computer explorer can try to share what's in the shared folders with 'Everyone' which includes the 'Guest' account. Which fails over and over, and can end up spamming the logs with 4625 events involving explorer.exe and the Guest account.