We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. From time to time, you may need to transfer files between Windows PCs — whether it's to move documents between work computers, share photos ...

Consider instead any one of the hundreds of more secure alternatives. My favorite? scp (Unix, Linux, BSD) or Pscp.exe (Windows). Scp and Pscp.exe using SSH to securely (encrypt files and authenticate ...

You don't need to upload files to the cloud just to access them on your other devices.

When you buy a new computer, you need to transfer important existing files from your old computer to the new device. At this point, you probably Googled something along the lines of, “How do I ...