Those of us with home networks usually share files, or at least printers, across our network.

This nice feature allows several computers to share and use one or more printers. At my house, we share an HP Laserjet 1200 and an HP ColorJet printer. That way, any printer can print color pages when we need them or print black and white laser quality pages (which also happen to be cheaper!).

But, as we send our children off to college, there’s a step that they need to take.

Windows allows us to easily turn OFF the “Windows File and Printer Sharing” in one place, rather than having to go and block each shared folder, drive or printer.

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