Is there no longer an option to disable or remove Windows Authentication from a PC?

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Is there no longer an option to disable or remove Windows Authentication from a PC?

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I just bought a new PC and want to connect it to my old PC and map a drive to make data transfer easier (I want to be able to do it selectively as I don't want my new PC to inherit the mess that is my old one). The new PC is running Windows 11 Pro and my old machine is running Windows 10 Pro. When I try to map a drive from my old one in my new one, I get a Windows Authentication error. I have tried entering local account user names and passwords as well as my Microsoft account. Nothing works. I found several posts that tell me to log in to my Windows account, go to the Security tab and select Advanced Security Options. This option is no longer there. I have been at this for 3 days now and can't do a simple share/drive mapping, which used to be extremely easy to do in previous Windows versions. My son had no problem doing that on his home network, but he is using Windows 11 Home Edition. The only reason I am using Pro is because that is what came installed when I bought the machines.

Can someone tell me how to disable or remove the Windows Authenticator, or if it is even possible anymore?

TIA.

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Thank you for your response. I have external drives that I could use for that purpose, but I want to be able to access the drives on a regular basis, and this is by far the easiest way for me to do it the way my PCs are set up. If I were going to do a mass migration of data from the old PC to the new, then I would agree with you. However, I have a lot of junk on there that I don't need and don't want to clutter my new machine with. I decided that the best thing I can do is bring data over on an as needed basis, and swapping external drives back and forth would be a real pain. Plus data transfers more quickly over a wired network (which is what I have set up just for this occasion).

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It would be so much easier to upload files from the old PC to OneDrive, and then download them from OneDrive to the new PC. An alternative is to borrow an external hard drive or a USB flash drive, then copy the files from the old PC to the drive and move them from the drive to the new PC. What you're trying to do is needlessly complicated.