Windows 10: Turn On or Off Password Protected Sharing in Windows 10

How to: Turn On or Off Password Protected Sharing in Windows 10

How to Turn On or Off Password Protected Sharing in Windows 10


When password protected sharing is turned on, only people who have a Public folders.

If you wanted to give access to shared files to other people without an account and password on your computer, then you will need to turn off password protected sharing.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off password protected sharing on your Windows 10 PC.

You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to turn on or off password protected sharing.


EXAMPLE: "Enter network credentials" prompt for password protected sharing






Here's How:

1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Network and Sharing Center icon.

2. Click/tap on the Change advanced sharing settings link on the left side. (see screenshot below)



3. Expand open

the All Networks profile. (see screenshot below)

4. Select (dot) Turn on password protected sharing (default) or Turn off password protected sharing for what you want to do, and click/tap on Save changes. (see screenshot below)

5. When finished, you can close Network and Sharing Center if you like.






That's it,
Shawn


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Network Sharing prompts for password (Password protected sharing turned off) - Windows 10

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



As you’ve already turned off password protected sharing, this issue could be due to the incorrect cached credentials stored on the PC. I suggest you to try the steps listed below and check if it works.

• Open Control Panel and categorize to view by
  small icons.
  
• Click on User Accounts and choose your
  User Name.
  
• On the left pane, click on Manage your credentials.
  Under Windows Credentials, remove the shared computer credentials and save the changes.
  
• Exit Control Panel and restart the machine to see if the issue persists.
  

Let us know how it goes.

Regards,

 

Cannot turn off the password protected sharing. The option for password protected sharing is not there

Hi Ankit,

Is this the exact process/steps you are using?

Open Control Panel

Go to Network and Sharing Center

Select Change advanced sharing settings in the left pane

Expand the network you want to disable password protected sharing on by clicking the down arrow on the right of the profile

Select 'Turn off password protected sharing' and then click Save changes.

 

Can't turn off password protected sharing windows 10

Hi Stephen,

We would need additional information to help us isolate the issue with turning off the password protected sharing. Kindly verify the following:

• How many computers are involved in this issue?
• Did you make any recent changes to your computer prior to this issue?
• What other troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?

Regards.

 

Sharing a folder still asking to enter password even after disabling turn off password protecting sharing in Windows 10

Old title: Sharing is not working

Dear Microsoft

I have a basic question about the networking. I have two computer and i want to share the folder named "games" using the lan. I connect both computer (computer_1 and computer_2) in computer 1 i
shared this folder for everyone to read and write. But the problem is that in the computer_1
turn off the password protecting but it still requiring the password to access the folder "games". And also there is Microsoft password is not working.

Means turn off password protecting sharing is not work.

I want to access this folder in computer_2 without requiring any password for computer_1.

I used the following process also but it still requiring to enter in the computer_1.

• private (current profile)

• Turn on network discovery
• Turn on file and printing sharing

• Guest of Public

• Turn on network discovery
• Turn on file and printing sharing

• All Network

• Turn on sharing so anyone with the network access can read and write file in the public folder
• Turn off password protecting

 

Windows 10 Turn Off Password Protected Sharing

We are looking for a way to turn off password protected sharing either programmatically or through some type of scripting (cmd, powershell, etc.) for Windows 10 1607. It is the option in Advanced Sharing Settings (All Networks) in Network and Sharing Center.
We can obviously change the option using the radio button but we have not been able to determine what setting(s) are being changed under the hood. Is it possible to set Turn off password protected sharing without using the user interface? Does Microsoft lock
out this from being changed except through the UI?

I have found suggestions for the following and I have tried all and nothing seems to turn off password protected sharing.

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA\everyoneIncludesAnonymous set to 1

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters\restrictnullsessaccess set to 0

Set Guest account to active.

Set blank password for Guest account.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Wayne