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OAITW r.2.0

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Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:10 PM Mar 2020

I just bought a new home PC to run my business*.

An Asus - i7-9900 Intel cpu, 8GB RAM, and a 250GB SSD "C" Drive. My older PC, bought 4 years ago was an i3 processor and 4gb RAM. No SSD. It was excruciating slow, waiting on search functions. Lots of brainlocks and reboots, too. Task manager explained my problems. Too little memory and too too slow. I figure 20% of my worktime is waiting....

So, here's my scenario - I want to mirror my desktop and my laptop and do it through using a 250GB SSD as my business root drive. Plug and play on either device. I spend a lot of time away from homebase. I have a MS Office 365 sub on both machines and my mail server is configured to drop the same emails to both devices.

On a side note note, I've set-up backups to each device C: drives from the SSD. That gives me 2 good back-ups of the business data on the SSD drive.

Problem is laptop/Home PC desktop icon management. My laptop/desktop icons are a bunch of shortcuts to my SSD drive, but the same shortcuts don't seem to sync between the laptop and the home PC. Is there a way to do this?

Any help or comments appreciated.


* To be honest, I'm also planning to run Microsoft Flight simulator on a new 32" HP monitor. I also got a NVidia Graphics Cards for this program only.

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I just bought a new home PC to run my business*. (Original Post) OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2020 OP
That's great! ThingsGottaChange Mar 2020 #1
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