How To Disable Password Protection On Shared Folder In Windows 7 8 10 11

How To Disable Password Protection On Shared Folder In Windows 7 8 10 11 | How to Turn off Password Protected Sharing in Windows 10

In Windows 10, password protected sharing is turned on by default, so your shared files could be accessed by only network users who have the login credentials of your computer. If you want to allow others to access the shared files on your PC without any username/password, follow the below step-by-step tutorial to turn off password protected sharing in Windows 10.

Steps to Disable Password Protected Sharing in Windows 10
How to turn off Password Protected Sharing in Windows 11/10
we will show you how to turn off password protected sharing in Windows 11/10 computers. By default, password protected sharing option or feature remains turned on in Windows 11/10. But, you can turn it off by following some simple steps.

The password-protected sharing feature of Windows 11/10 OS helps the users, who have a local user account and password on their computer, to access or open the shared files, the Public folders, and attached printers. Other users who don’t have a user account and password can’t access such items on your computer. But, if you want, you can let other people access the shared files, Public folders, etc., on your computer by turning off the password-protected sharing on your Windows 11/10 computer.
How do I turn off password protected sharing?
The password-protected sharing on Windows OS can be turned off by accessing the Advanced sharing settings window available in Network and Sharing Center. That window contains the option to turn off password-protected sharing at the bottom-most section.

Whether you want to turn off password-protected sharing on a Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, the steps are the same for both operating systems. We have also mentioned all the steps in this post to help you easily turn off password-protected sharing.

Why I cannot turn off password protected sharing?
Though password-protected sharing can easily be turned off in Windows 11/10 computer from the Advanced sharing settings window (the steps are already present above in this post), sometimes users are not able to do it from there. The most likely reason for that is you are using a guest account with a password.
Turn Off Password-protected Sharing Windows 10
By default, any file you share is protected with a username and password on Windows 10. This means that only people with the correct account and password can access network shared files. If you want to set up file sharing on the local network for family members or people you know, you can disable the requirement to log in with Windows credentials to allow users to access files on the shared computer without a password. You must log in as an administrator to turn password-protected sharing on or off.

What is password-protected sharing in Windows 10
How to turn off password-protected sharing
How to fix cannot turn off password protected sharing
What is password-protected sharing
Password-protected sharing is a networking based feature in Windows 10, with which you can allow or block other users on your system to access shared files, printers and public folders provided that they sigh in to a password-protected local user account on the computer. By default, this feature is turned on and someone else having a the correct user name and password of your system can go to Network pane in the File Explorer, to access the shared data.

Example: "Enter network credentials" prompt for password protected sharing.


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