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 ...

We all face situations where we need to transfer large or important files between two computers, but don't have a USB stick or hard disk at hand to rescue. Cloud storage solutions can be convenient ...

An ethernet cable is all I needed.

Back in the older versions of Windows, there used to be a handy feature called Windows Easy Transfer that painlessly guided the process of migrating files and settings from one computer to another.