Stormin Mormon wrote:
A fellow I know, but never met. He's got two computers.
Desktop running XP, and laptop running Vista. He wants to
copy a couple gb of files, from one to the other.

So far, he's been copying some with a flash drive, and dump
them onto the other computer. It's taking a long time.

Suppose he takes a USB cable, from one computer to the
other. Would each computer show up as another drive, to the
other? Use windows explorer to click and drag and drop? Send
the data through the USB cable.

And what if one of the computers was turned off? Would the
USB cable provide enough power to spin the other drive, and
allow the data transfer?


Most folks used to us Lap-Link for the purpose but
it's so easy now with what's already there. Small
network switch or cross over cable will do the
trick. Google "how to share files on win computers",
there is so much available on The Internet now
that I can't get most folks to pay me to set it
up for them, DARN!

TDD