I guess there are many ways to do this. What I would do is to open Windows Explorer twice -- have 2 instances of it open at once -- and resize them so that they are side-by-side on the screen. In one of them go to the data you want to move, probably in your My Documents folder, and in the other go to a drive letter which contains removable storage. Then simply drag your data from My Documents over to the removable storage. The data will remain in your My Documents but will be copied onto the removable storage. When you are finished then remove the removable storage and take it to your laptop, and then do the same thing there. Open 2 instances of Windows Explorer then drag the data from the removable storage to wherever you want it on the laptop, probably in my documents.
The reason this works out is because My Documents is on the C drive, but the removable storage will be on a different drive letter, usually either D or E, and when you drag data across drive letters the data itself is not moved at all, only copied. (If you move data around within a drive letter then it does get moved around). To open Windows Explorer right click on the Start button on the lower left of the screen and then select Explorer. Do that twice.
What I mean by "removable storage" is this:
> a blank cd or dvd. Either of these will show up in Windows Explorer on the D drive, which is the optical drive (the cd or dvd burner),
> an external hard drive -- this will show up in Windows Explorer as an E or F drive depending on whether or not something else is already connected. There is a great advantage in using an external hard drive, because all of your data can be backed up onto it in case the computers fail.
> a usb flash drive -- when you connect one to a usb port it will show up in Windows Explorer as an E or F drive depending on whether or not something else is already connected.
You can also connect the computers directly through LAN or other networks. You can find out about those methods by googling. Here is an example.
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I guess there are many ways to do this. What I would do is to open Windows Explorer twice -- have 2 instances of it open at once -- and resize them so that they are side-by-side on the screen. In one of them go to the data you want to move, probably in your My Documents folder, and in the other go to a drive letter which contains removable storage. Then simply drag your data from My Documents over to the removable storage. The data will remain in your My Documents but will be copied onto the removable storage. When you are finished then remove the removable storage and take it to your laptop, and then do the same thing there. Open 2 instances of Windows Explorer then drag the data from the removable storage to wherever you want it on the laptop, probably in my documents.
The reason this works out is because My Documents is on the C drive, but the removable storage will be on a different drive letter, usually either D or E, and when you drag data across drive letters the data itself is not moved at all, only copied. (If you move data around within a drive letter then it does get moved around). To open Windows Explorer right click on the Start button on the lower left of the screen and then select Explorer. Do that twice.
What I mean by "removable storage" is this:
> a blank cd or dvd. Either of these will show up in Windows Explorer on the D drive, which is the optical drive (the cd or dvd burner),
> an external hard drive -- this will show up in Windows Explorer as an E or F drive depending on whether or not something else is already connected. There is a great advantage in using an external hard drive, because all of your data can be backed up onto it in case the computers fail.
> a usb flash drive -- when you connect one to a usb port it will show up in Windows Explorer as an E or F drive depending on whether or not something else is already connected.
You can also connect the computers directly through LAN or other networks. You can find out about those methods by googling. Here is an example.