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Windows share files between user profiles or user accounts

Newer windows such as Windows 7, windows 8 and windows 10 has the feature to share files between user profiles or user accounts. This feature is useful when the computer is shared between user accounts or the computer is shared and has multiple user accounts. This would also be ideal, if you created a new user account and wants to transfer or copy the files from the old account to the new account. Of course, there are a lot of ways on how to move or copy files. Like copying to external drive, uploading to cloud such as Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or other applications. Such options require a 3 rd party application, but Windows provides a user profile that whatever files or folder that is placed on this account is accessible to all user accounts in the computer. So, how to share file or folder in Windows to other user accounts without changing permissions? %public%\desktop   - - - files or folders on here will be shared to all user account desktop %public%\documents