I got a new gaming PC a little over a month ago. It has Windows 11. My work computer and my other home PC are Windows 10. My first time with the gaming PC I downloaded three games through Steam. I go into work the next day and I'm shocked to see icons on the work PC for those game files. So I delete those icons. Come home, turn on the gaming PC, but where are my games? They're gone. So deleting them at work also deleted them at home. I had to go back into Steam and restore them.
That's when I started researching it and found out that I needed to turn off "share with other Windows devices nearby". So I did that for each of the devices, work PC, gaming PC, home PC, and the new laptop I bought. I thought that was the end of it. No it wasn't. I had to download a tool to run a game with and when I went into work the next day, there is was on my work PC. I also created a Word Pad document at work the other day and saw on Saturday when I got on my gaming PC, there was a copy of that document in the documents file.
So the devices are still sharing somehow. How do I stop it?
That's when I started researching it and found out that I needed to turn off "share with other Windows devices nearby". So I did that for each of the devices, work PC, gaming PC, home PC, and the new laptop I bought. I thought that was the end of it. No it wasn't. I had to download a tool to run a game with and when I went into work the next day, there is was on my work PC. I also created a Word Pad document at work the other day and saw on Saturday when I got on my gaming PC, there was a copy of that document in the documents file.
So the devices are still sharing somehow. How do I stop it?
- Windows Build/Version
- 22621.2134/22H2
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11