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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Haus of Tech Support > Your Operating System has Poor Operational Security
 
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MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

Melian Dialogue posted:

I bought a new laptop recently, but never bothered to migrate old files off of my old one. I'm interested in using some type of Remote desktop software or something so that I basically use my old laptop like an external HD (i.e. just go into Explorer, open up the folders and such from the other laptop and control it from my new laptop).

All the stuff with remote desktop and all of that has me paranoid. What's the safest and easiest way to do this without installing some hokey software that has a thousand exploits?

You could buy 3TB of external storage for like 60-100 depending on deals etc, if you need something faster than external USB3.0/2.0 storage will provide, you can buy a 1TB internal for like 40-60, depending on if you have an extra slot for a second drive.

Your other option is to fire up the other laptop and share out whatever folders you need files from, RDP is way overkill for what you're trying to do, you can share the folders/give permission for your new laptop/user to access those files (or the whole file system!)

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