Microsoft Windows Vista On Demand

Sharing Files Using Shared Folders

With Sharing Folders (New!), you can share the same files with more than one contact and update the content automatically. To share or transfer files, you and your contact must have Windows XP or Windows Vista and Windows Live Messenger 8 or later. You also need to set sharing options in Windows Liver Messenger. After you’re set up, you can simply drag files to share them. When you are online with a contact, the files you share are automatically synchronized. When you no longer want to share files with a contact using Sharing Folders, you can remove the contact’s shared folder, which doesn’t delete them from contacts. To keep your computer safe, you can set options to reject potentially unsafe files and install ...