[Ham-Computers] How to "synchronise" mail from Desktop to Laptop

[Philip, KO6BB]

Hi,

I just added an Acer Laptop (Vista Home Premium) to my "'puter inventory". 
This is nearly my first experience with Vista (I helped a friend set his 
up), but so far, after all the horror stories I've heard, I've been 
pleasantly surprised.  Even the OLD Dos logging program I use for Longwave 
beacons runs just fine (that was my biggest fear). . .

In fact, the laptop, with an Intel 2GHz Centrino Duo core, and 3GB of RAM is 
running at LEAST as fast as this 3.6GHz Dual core P4 desktop containing 4GB 
RAM and running XP (and I always thought this one was a "hotrod").

Anyway, my question is this.  I normally use the desktop for all my Email 
(Outlook Express), etc, and haven't yet set up the laptop to receive email 
(Microsoft Mail).  That's because I didn't want it to download my mail and 
take it off the server before I got it on this one.  The laptop has 
something called "Synchronize" to update files against a desktop, the books 
that came with the machine are rather "minimal" and don't go into any 
details on the software, other than some of the special ACER utilities etc. 
Perhaps they figure that either you know how, or should buy "Vista for 
dummies", grin.

Can somebody give me at least a general procedure for synchronizing?  Both 
machines are tied into the same router, and I suspect I'll need to set up 
the network and file sharing on both, but that's just a guess (I've been 
using a 2GB memory stick to copy a lot of stuff over, like programs I want 
to run, favorites folder etc.

An interesting side note.  When I first started the machine up, and put the 
preliminary stuff in (time zone, name etc), it wasn't connected to my router 
yet.  A little window popped up asking me to select a network to connect to. 
It turned out that it was "seeing" about 5 different wireless networks in my 
neighborhood, a couple quite strong.  I connected to one and the machine 
started to update.  Hey, maybe I can cancel my Internet provider (JUST 
KIDDING, I wouldn't want to risk somebody hacking it).

Thanks you all in advance.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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