Getting Started With the New Windows Live Mesh 2011

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Recently Microsoft has been indecisive with it’s Live Mesh / Sync cloud based services.

The following is an excerpt from their email.

“You’re receiving this message because you used the Live Mesh beta from Microsoft.

Your files will also stop syncing between your computers and your Live Mesh online storage.

kindly read below for actions we recommend you take.”

Keep reading for how to install and use the latest version of Live Mesh.

Unless you want to install everything for some reason, just choose the ones you want to Install.

You’ll find it in the Start Menu under All Programs \ Windows Live.

The first time you launch it, you’ll be prompted to sign in with your Windows Live ID.

Launch Live Mesh and snag the Sync a folder hyperlink.

Then browse to the folder you want to sync and hit the Sync button.

Now opt for computer(s) you want to sync your folder with.

Then after the process has completed, you’ll be able to see the files were synced successfully.

Live Mesh runs in the background and monitors the synced folders for any changes.

Any time you add a new file or folder to the synced directories, both machines will be updated.

you’re free to open it from an icon that lives in the Notification Area on the Taskbar.

Here we can see the Excel documents folder that we synced to our SkyDrive.

tap on the folder to view its content.

Then select where you want to sync the folder.

Here we are going to select our Netbook and SkyDrive Synced Storage.

So for example maybe you want to connect to to your Work computer at Home or vice-versa.

For example here in our list of computers, not all of them are set up for remote access.

select Connect to this computer, then wait for the connection to be established.

Here we connected to our Netbook – both running Windows 7. punch the magnifying glass icon to change the size of the display while you’re connected to another machine.

Here is an example where we connected to a Vista computer.

When you’re done with a session just disconnect from the other machine.

Do this for each machine you want program configs synced to.

And it quickly brought over bookmarks from the other PC.

This should get you started with Windows Live Mesh 2011 to sync your files and folders between computers.