Help transferring files/pictures from laptop to desktop!!!!

[here to buy 10+ year member]

Hi, I'm giving my laptop to a friend for a dickrub, so i need to transfer all my pictures and documents to my desktop, 8.63 gb, i know i can just hook up an ethernet cord from desktop to the laptop and transfer it that way, but i don't know what to do in the network connections window or what to do.

the desktop is xp

laptop is vista.

any help?

I guess i would need to download a program to do transfers and make it easier to do, if so, what program?

thanks

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[here to buy 10+ year member]

helpsss

 

[fbi90909 5,000+ posts]

zip it up. megaupload it, redownload it, unzip it

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Thumb drive.

nG

 

[AVSTANG02]

dickrub?

 

[anj46907 10+ year member]

dickrub?

sounds interesting..maybe we all should get one for helping him out

 

[jpexpc 10+ year member]

If you can hook up a patch cable between the desktop and laptop and transfer files directly I would say you obviously don't need our help. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[here to buy 10+ year member]

If you can hook up a patch cable between the desktop and laptop and transfer files directly I would say you obviously don't need our help. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

what?? i couldnt transfer the files, which is why i made this thread asking for help

i hooked the ethernet cable up from desktop to laptop, nothing popped up saying it detected anything, so i gave up at it, what was i supposed to do to get it to work?

went through the network conections window and there was nothing about file sharing.

now im in the middle of transferring everything with a couple thumb drives back and forth, taking forever. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[jpexpc 10+ year member]

You can't share with just a patch cable. You need to connect them to a router. If you have wireless you could do ad-hoc.

 

[thaster 10+ year member]

dvd 9 FTW

 

[here to buy 10+ year member]

im almost done with transferring everything with the flash drives, but could you walk me through how to do it with the router over ethernet jpexpc?

after connecting to the router both computers then what?

I'd like to know how for future reference. so im not stuck with doing it this way in the future.

 

[jpexpc 10+ year member]

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/windowsxpnetworking/ht/sharewinxpfiles.htm

Find out the name of the computer you will be sharing the files on (Control Panel ----> System). Open up My Computer and in the address bar type:

\\yourcomputersname

Navigate to the folder, right-click and then copy the file where you want it.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

easiest way it to set up FTP

read about it

 

[here to buy 10+ year member]

finished doing it all with the thumb drives.

finallys

 

[Anniku989 10+ year member]

Welp, glad everyone here helped ya out! Enjoy giving your boyfriend a 'dickrub' (right?)