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Windows XP and Laptops

Consider a USB Drive

SUMMARY: A USB drive can make transferring data from your laptop to a desktop computer easier.


 

If you ever need to transport data between your Windows XP laptop and another laptop or desktop computer, you can transfer information by floppy disks, burn a CD, or transfer information via infrared if both computers support that feature. One purchase you may want to consider is a small USB flash drive. When plugged into a computer's USB port, they act just like an extra hard drive on your laptop. Most of the time, with Windows XP, no extra driver installation is necessary - it's truly "plug and play".

Most of these "drives" are small enough to fit on a key-ring, yet they hold enough data to store word processing documents, MP3 files, graphics, spreadsheets, and more. They are much more convenient that transporting a bunch of floppy disks, and they are reusable, unlike standard CD-Rs.



 

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