do you remember the days where use these or even these to transfer files between
Windows PCs what were we savages now there's a better way three ways in fact
to transfer files quickly simply and wirelessly between Windows PCs there's
three ways of sharing files and three different scenarios
the first is cloud clipboard for two pcs that you already own the second is near
share for two pcs in proximity to one another one of which you own and the
third is traditional onedrive sharing for sharing large files as far away as
halfway across the world everyone knows how to cut and paste across documents
control X control C and then control V and you're done but what if you could
cut and paste across pcs that's what clipboard or sometimes
called cloud clipboard allows you to do now clipboard isn't quite here yet it's
going to be part of the fall 2018 update to Windows 10 but we can look at it in a
preview mode in the Windows 10 Pro insider preview and to do so all we need
to do is go into the settings type in clipboard and then make sure that this
particular setting sync across devices is turned on you also want to make sure
that this is highlighted as well automatically sync text that I copy
once that's done cutting and pasting is as easy as going into a text document
highlighting a block of text hit ctrl C go into the document on the other PC and
hit control V and that's it the problem with cloud clipboard is it only allows
you to share a few megabytes at a time if you want to share a webpage or a
larger file you need what's called near share or nearby sharing now nearby
sharing is also great for the fact that you can go ahead and share with
strangers who are sitting in close physical proximity now to do so you'll
need to do a couple of things obviously you'll need to go into the settings once
again and to make sure that nearby sharing is turned on now one of the
things that nearby sharing also requires is requires that you have Bluetooth and
Wi-Fi turned on that's the transport mechanism it's you use the transport
files now once you've done that you can go ahead and transfer files
from one PC the next now this PC right here is actually logged in under a
generic Lenovo account whereas the other PC is actually logged in under my name
so if I go into PC world's web page and I want to say hey look I want you to
know about our roundup of the best graphics cards for PC gaming well with
an edge there's this lovely share button up to there upper right hand corner you
can go ahead and click it and it'll go ahead and look for nearby devices it's
found the surface laptop sitting nearby so I'll go ahead and click it and what
it's doing is its initiating a Transfer Protocol we're on one PC it sends it
over and the other it opens it so in just a few seconds this other PC will
have an opportunity to go ahead and find out the best graphics cards for PC
gaming so what if we have a file it's a few hundred megabytes or even a few
gigabytes in size sure we could burn a DVD or even send a hard drive across
country but that's not really practical when we have a better solution and
that's Microsoft's onedrive now if you have a Windows 10 PC and especially a
subscription to office 365 you already have a number of gigabytes in fact you
have a terabyte of data available to you in the cloud and on your PC you have
access to it now the best way to go ahead and set it up is to go ahead and
go to the taskbar this onedrive icon go to the more ellipses menu go into
settings and then configure onedrive to backup your available files on your
documents in your Documents folder and your photos folder and possibly in your
desktop as well and if you do so over time you'll accumulate a list of files
and folders like we see over here now the little cloud icons next to the
folders show me that those files reside in the cloud and not on my PC and that's
a good thing actually we don't want that all of that terabyte actually clogging
up our hard drive so what happens though if we have a file that we've already
uploaded the cloud that we need to school head and send us somebody in this
case I have a file that's 850 megabytes of raw video that I need to go ahead and
send to an editor to turn into a story so I can go ahead and again to try to
burn a DVD and send it overnight but that's not gonna matter that's not gonna
make sense in terms of my deadline so what I want to do is when I hit go
ahead and use the cloud to send this file as quickly as possible the easiest
way to do that is to simply right-click it and that brings up a menu and I can
go ahead and share a onedrive link and as you can see from the notification and
now have a link in my clipboard that I can send to my editor they can go ahead
and download the file and go ahead and edit it as they so choose
well that concludes the way in which we go ahead and share files wirelessly
within windows I hope you've enjoyed this video and I hope you tune in to PC
world for more