Good morning,

I have acquired a laptop computer, a gift from my son, and I am not very 
familiar with laptops.  I want to hook the laptop up to my desktop so I 
can transfer data files between the two computers.  How can I do that?

The laptop uses Windows 2000 Pro operating system.  It has a 40 gig hard 
drive with almost nothing on it and has 512 megs of memory.  It has all 
kinds of ports on the back including a telephone jack for the internal 
dialup modem and two RJ-45 network connections.

My desktop is a Dell L800r with at least 100 gigs of free hard drive 
space, 512 megs of memory, and Windows XP Home operating system.  It has 
an RJ-45 network connection in the back.

I don't need or particularly want a LAN setup.  The best I can get here 
is a dialup modem connection so there is no possibility of sharing  a 
high speed internet connection.  I just want to hook up the two 
computers periodically so I can transfer data files between them.

Thanks...

Loy

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