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Locating Shared Folders

Before you walk away from a computer, you should check for any

unnecessary or unknown (to you) shared folders on the hard drives. This

enables you to make the computer as secure as possible for the user. When

you look in Windows Explorer/File Explorer, shared folders don’t just jump

out at you, especially if they’re buried deep within the file system. A shared

C: drive is obvious, but a shared folder all the way down in

D:\temp\backup\Simon\secret share would not be obvious, especially if none

of the parent folders were shared.

Windows comes with a handy tool for locating all the shared folders on a

computer, regardless of where they reside on the drives. The Computer

Management console in the Administrative Tools has a Shared Folders option

under System Tools. Under Shared Folders are three options: Shares,

Sessions, and Open Files. Select Shares to reveal all the shared folders (see

Figure 13-32).

Figure 13-32 Shared Folders tool in Computer Management

You can double-click on any share to open the Properties dialog box for

that folder. At that point, you can make changes to the share—such as users

and permissions—just as you would from any other sharing dialog box.

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