Windows 10: Share button gray in file explorer

Hi to all,

when i select a directory for share and select the share tab, the share button don't work.





Why?

:)

 

Share button is gray in Windows 10

Hi,

I do appreciate your efforts and time, and will assist you with the issue.

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  Are you trying to share from an Admin account? Because the share option might be greyed out due to administrative privileges.
  

Method 1

I suggest you to try the steps provided below and check if it helps.

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  Type This PC in the search bar and hit enter.
  
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  Right click on a drive you want to share.
  
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  Select share with.
  
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  Select Advanced sharing.
  
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  Check the box share this folder and click on permissions.
  
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  Set permissions according to you and click on
  apply and ok.
  

If the issue still prissiest, try Method 2,

Method 2

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  Open an elevated command prompt. (Right click on start button and select command prompt admin)
  
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  Type takeown /U %username% /F %USERPROFILE% /R /SKIPSL (You may also need the /P <password>
  
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  Once that completes type cacls %USERPROFILE% /T /E /G %USERNAME%:F
  

This should force you to be the owner of everything in your profile and grant you full access.

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If the issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.

 

SHARING FILES WITH WINDOWS 7

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

• Have you made any changes on your PC?
• Did you perform any Windows update recently?
• Are you connected to Domain network?

I suggest you to try the below steps and check if that helps.

1. To share files over file explorer refer the following
   
   article.
2. Refer article for
   file sharing over a network.

Hope it helps.

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Sandeep Kumar M

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Share button is gray in Windows 10

I guess it's too late, but... I got the TRUE solution for your trouble, it was happening with me as well. For some reason, "Sharing Wizard" was disabled in my system, and because of that, the share button was grayed out, probably it's disabled in your system
too. Search in youtube for "How to Enable File Sharing in Windows 10", it shows how to do it. Hope it helps you too...