Synching a Laptop to a PC?
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Whats the best way of synchronising my laptop to my PC. I do all my design work on my PC, but take it to site and meetings on my laptop, where some of the data gets changed.
PC is running Win XP pro and the laptop has XP home, only one directory and Outlook needs to be kept in synch.
Can anyone recomend any good software?
TIA
Mick
PC is running Win XP pro and the laptop has XP home, only one directory and Outlook needs to be kept in synch.
Can anyone recomend any good software?
TIA
Mick
For the directory, you can share it from the PC and use the 'offline files' feature to keep them synchronised. If you right click on the share from the laptop and choose 'make available offline' it'l synchronise a copy of the share every time you shutdown, and re-sync again when you connect the network.
Outlook is a bit more tricky, unless you do something like making sure the PST file is stored in the same folder that's available offline on the laptop and set both outlooks to use it. The downside of that though is that you won't be able to use outlook simultaneousley on the desktop and laptop.
Disclaimer: Not 100% sure what the deal is with XP home and offline files.
Outlook is a bit more tricky, unless you do something like making sure the PST file is stored in the same folder that's available offline on the laptop and set both outlooks to use it. The downside of that though is that you won't be able to use outlook simultaneousley on the desktop and laptop.
Disclaimer: Not 100% sure what the deal is with XP home and offline files.
Cock... it appears that Home doesn't support offline files
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx
Sorry!
Looking forward to keeping track of 8 versions of Vista... not.
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx
Sorry!
Looking forward to keeping track of 8 versions of Vista... not.
FrenchTVR said:
BliarOut said:
aldi said:
Disclaimer: Not 100% sure what the deal is with XP home and offline files.
Double disclaimer: IIRC the gits disabled it in Home. You need Pro to use Offline Files.
Cheers guys, guess I'll do it handraulically then
To use offline files correctly you'll need to upgrade the lappy to Pro. Can you get IMAP access to your e-mail from your ISP?
BliarOut said:
FrenchTVR said:
BliarOut said:
aldi said:
Disclaimer: Not 100% sure what the deal is with XP home and offline files.
Double disclaimer: IIRC the gits disabled it in Home. You need Pro to use Offline Files. Cheers guys, guess I'll do it handraulically then
To use offline files correctly you'll need to upgrade the lappy to Pro. Can you get IMAP access to your e-mail from your ISP?
With the email it's not so much sending/receiving to the laptop, more a case of having all the latest stuff on their the whole time.
Whats IMAP?I use synctoy to syncronise between an XP Home laptop and a Media Center pc. You can specify individual direcories etc.
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx
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