The Network and Sharing Center

Several times in this book, you’ll read about the Network and Sharing Center. Until TileWorld came along,
this was the master control center for creating, managing, and
connecting to networks of all kinds (Figure 25-3). Now that you
can do most network tasks right in the Charms bar, the N.a.S.C. isn’t quite as
essential.

But it’s still where you set up the sharing of files, folders,
printers, and multimedia files over the network, as you’ll discover in
Chapter 27.

Figure 25-3. Once it’s open, the Network and Sharing Center offers links
that let you connect to a network, create a new network,
troubleshoot your connection, fiddle with your network or network
adapter card settings, and so on.

There are all kinds of ways to get there, but the quickest is to
right-click the or icon on your taskbar system tray. From the
shortcut menu, choose Open Network and Sharing Center.

You can also get there from the Start screen by typing
network and; select Settings; and then select
Open Network and Sharing Center.

To do anything with your network, you need
to click one of the links in blue. They include these:

Change adapter settings

Change adapter settings

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