Windows 10 How to keep my files invisible to the outside internet. Why does TCP and SMB both use the network adapter? Should network discovery and file sharing

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My machine is a Windows 10 Pro 22H2 machine.Private profile with Network Discovery and File and Printer sharing turned on or Public Profile with the same on.Windows has 2 profiles for networks.The first is the Private profile. I believe that it is used while at home and you need to share files between 2 or more computers. I believe it uses the SMB protocol to share files between the local computers.The second profile is the Public profile and if my understanding is correct, you would use this if you had a laptop and were out in a library or coffee shop.My confusion comes in for this reason bel

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