Windows Vista is a new operating system from Microsoft that is designed to make your computer work faster and easier. One of the ways it does this is by making it easier to share files and folders with other people. To share a folder in Windows Vista, first open the folder you want to share. Then, on the toolbar, click the Share button. (If you don’t see the Share button, you may need to click View menu and then select Show All Files.) In the Sharing dialog box that opens, select the type of sharing you want to do: You can also choose how many people can access the folder at once: After you make your choices, click OK. The sharing process will start and will finish quickly. When it’s done, your friends or colleagues will be able to open and use the folder just as if they had opened it from your computer. ..
Windows Vista includes a “Share” button on the explorer toolbar, but it doesn’t work the way people used to XP/Win2k expect it to. Instead it pops up a wizard to make things “easier”.
By default, this share button will not let you choose the name of the shared folder. Even more annoying, sharing a folder within your user directory will have a weird share name like \computer\Users\geek\Contacts, which is much more difficult to remember.
If you want to share folders the way you used to on Windows XP, simply right-click the folder, and choose the Properties option.
Now choose the Advanced Sharing button.
Now you should be able to check the box “Share this folder”, and choose a share name, which will be accessible from \computer\myshare, for example.
You can also click the Permissions button if you want to allow write access to this share, or allow access to only a particular user.
