What programs that transfer data betwwen pc's?

[mystvearn]

I have a serial cable-and I want to transfer data between pc's. Unfortunately my laplink does not support xp-and I can't install it on xp. So I used windows cable transfer-hopeless,not stable and no seems that no files are transfering. Any ideas what to do? I don't have a home LAN

[Force Flow]

Do you have ethernet connections on each PC? If you do, then all you would need is a crossover cable.

I guess that would be a home LAN, though.

[glc]

Pull the hard drive and slave it into the other machine or create a LAN with a couple NIC's and a crossover cable. Serial cable transfer is terribly slow.

[mystvearn]

Its like this. THe pc I have is one laptop-p2 450mhz win 98 and transfering data to a desktop p4 winxp.The problem is I tried it the wlave, master way-its not that successful. I'm thinking of getting a usb-usb wire which can connect between pc's and any sofware that can substitute the laplink-which works only on win 98. Ideas?LAN-is out of the question for now-cause its hard to find the parts here at my place.

[glc]

Search Google for "Windows XP Direct Cable Connection" - there are articles that may help you do what you need without 3rd party software. I get the impression that you can use either a serial or parallel connection.

[mystvearn]

thanks.I have bot parallel and serial. I'll try other methods

[David_Jones]

Parallel connection should work fine.

It is slow, but if you are talking about a one-off transfer, then I take the view that it doesn't really matter.

I have done it before, and just left it running over night.

I think it has to be the simplest method, since you only have to plug in the parallel cable (or serial cable) to the two existing ports, and run the application that comes free in Windows.

Caveat: Haven't actually done it from XP to 98, but it works sweet for ealier versions of windows, even between versions.

HTH,

David.