file transfer?

Question

i have a home network, one laptop one pc both win xp, joined by a router how do i transfer files from one to the other? thanks and merry xmas

Answer 1

With Valentines Day just around the corner our thoughts turn to sharing more time with our precious loved ones - That's right our laptops :)

We do live in a connected age, there is little doubt about that. With only a humble network card installed I'm writing this from my laptop in the middle of a wireless coffee shop with the full features of the internet and e-mail at my disposal, while enjoying a warming Soya Latte and listening to the latest Joe Jackson album over head. Certainly a pleasant change from the office.

So with all this Wi-Fi connectivity, quite literally, flying through the air, why do people still insist on using small USB flash drives to transfer their important data from laptop to PC and vice versa? These not only wear out the shoe leather to get data from one place to another, but they are getting increasingly tiny, and easy to misplace.

If you need to regularly transfer data from one laptop to another then a home or office network is the ideal answer, but let's face it, it's a tricky task for almost everyone out there, and although every subsequent version of Windows make's it easier, it's never going to be easy for noobs.

What to do then? Well obviously the boys at Thinkgeek.com have had a similar thought and have come up with the "USB Data Transfer Device". Now this isn't exactly the snappiest name for a product that I've ever heard, and true it will win no style awards, but what this little baby can do is just the ticket.

Take one USB cable from the device insert it into a PC or Laptop, take the other USB Cable and plug it into another PC and bingo, like love and marriage the two computers are as one. Instantly a nifty little pop up appears, and you can transfer files from one PC to another to your hearts content.

Of course this box of tricks is USB 2.0 for zippy transfers of 25mb per second, and its cables stretch to 4 feet. When you're not using these cables they fit snugly back into the roughly 4 inch square box.

Oh and I almost forgot there is a calming blue indicator light that will blink to let you know all is well with the file transfer.

Answer 2

Open network connections and use the create home and small office network wizard. Ensure that both pcs are using the same workgroup.

On any folder you want to be shared right click on it choose properties ans set up sharing. These folders should then show up in My network Places

Answer 3

You need to enable file and printer sharing when you in stall the network, you tranfer the files by way of the shared folder in documents and settings

Answer 4

Use a Pen drive, just put into any USB port and copy the required files and then take to other computer and copy those.

Answer 5

Turn on file sharing. The other machine should show up in some netwrk thing.

Answer 6

Yes you can, turn file/printer sharing on with both machines, and put them on the same workgroup. Then you can access the machine just by doing Start...Run... then type \\192.168.0.1 or whatever your IP address is.

Answer 7

if you have two yahoo accounts , you can yahoo messenger on both of them . set them up to accept each other and you can send files from one PC to the other, hope it helps there are other ways to do it as well

Answer 8

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