How do I get info from a laptop to a desktop?

Mics_chick

My desktop is our main computer and the laptop is an old one with a cracked screen but it is still usable.
I've typed some letters in on the laptop so my OH could use the internet on the desktop but have realised that our 5yr old DS has wrecked our memory pen so it won't work now :mad:
I've got network cables that I'm not using so I wondered if I could somehow use them but don't know what I'm doing really. So I don't know if it will work at all or whether we need software to go with it?
Can anyone help please?

enigma52

eaiest way is buy another pendrive they are really cheap these days and keep it out of reach of 5 year old, simples

debitcardmayhem

Is the Laptop connected to your router ?

John_Gray

enigma52 wrote: »

easiest way is buy another pendrive they are really cheap these days and keep it out of reach of 5 year old

Probably the quickest suggestion - unless you want to spend possibly quite some time sharing folders on either or both the PC and the laptop, and connecting both to the router's ethernet ports, or directly connecting PC to laptop via a crossover ethernet patch cable...

More4me

If there are not too many letters then email them to yourself/OH, open email from desktop and save it. Besides you will always have a copy on the net which can be looked up from any pc.

Mics_chick

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Is the Laptop connected to your router ?

No but is it possible to connect more than 1 to a standard router or do I need a special one?

[Deleted User]

See here: http://www.wikihow.com/Connect-Two-Computers

There's also a video at the bottom of the page.

jayme1

if you have a hotmail account you can use skydrive exactly like a pendrive, and if both computers have either vista or windows 7 then you can install windows live mesh from live essentials on both computers and then you can set any file on either computer to always stay in sync (very useful if you are always moving files between computers)

closed

google file and print sharing or 2.5" usb caddy, the latter option allows you to use the old disk for backups.

prowla

More4me wrote: »

If there are not too many letters then email them to yourself/OH, open email from desktop and save it. Besides you will always have a copy on the net which can be looked up from any pc.

If you don't have email set up on the laptop, just use hotmail or yahoo mail or one of the other free ones and send the file(s) as an attachment.

DVardysShadow

Mics_chick wrote: »

No but is it possible to connect more than 1 to a standard router or do I need a special one?

You can connect loads of PCs to a router at the same time. Everything you need is an place, it is just a matter of setting up the software