Windows Live Mesh Overview and Features

Windows Live Mesh is a cloud-based service that allows you to access and share your files, photos, and other data from any device with an internet connection.

With Windows Live Mesh, you can sync your files across multiple computers and devices, making it easy to access your important documents and photos from anywhere.

This means you can work on a project at home, save it to the cloud, and then access it from your laptop or smartphone while on the go.

Windows Live Mesh also allows you to share files and folders with others, making it a great tool for collaboration and teamwork.

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Windows Live Mesh offers a range of features that make it a powerful tool for syncing and accessing your files across multiple devices.

With Windows Live Mesh, you can sync up to 200 folders with 100,000 files each, with each file capped at 40 GB. This means you can easily keep your files in sync across multiple PCs.

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The cloud storage aspect of Windows Live Mesh allows you to sync up to 5 GB of files to SkyDrive synced storage. This is perfect for storing files that you need to access from multiple devices.

One of the most convenient features of Windows Live Mesh is remote desktop access. You can access your PC from anywhere using Windows Live Mesh and the Windows Live Devices web service.

PC-to-PC synchronization of application settings is also a useful feature. This includes applications such as, but not limited to, Microsoft Office.

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Syncing files and folders with Windows Live Mesh is a breeze. You can sync data between Windows computers, and even Macs, but we weren't able to test the Mac compatibility.

To get started, launch Live Mesh and click on the Sync a folder hyperlink. Then, browse to the folder you want to sync and hit the Sync button.

Syncing kicks off immediately, and you can see it running on each computer you're syncing with. After the process completes, you'll be able to see the files were synced successfully.

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Live Mesh runs in the background and monitors the synced folders for any changes, so anytime you add a new file or folder to the synced directories, both machines will be updated.

You can access the synced files from an icon that lives in the Notification Area on the Taskbar. By default, Network Locations aren't able to be synced with Live Mesh 2011, but it is compatible with Server 2003, 2008, and Windows Home Server Version 1.

If you want to sync folders with your online storage, you can use SkyDrive, which borrows 5GB of storage from your Live account. To do this, open Live Mesh and select Sync a folder, navigate to the folder you want to sync, and click the Sync button.

The files will be synced to your SkyDrive, and you can access them by clicking on SkyDrive synced storage and signing into your Live account if prompted.

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Syncing your program settings between computers can be a huge time-saver. You can sync Internet Explorer and MS Office settings using Live Mesh 2011.

To get started, click on the Program Settings tab under Live Mesh 2011 and then click Turn on syncing next to each one you want to sync.

Live Mesh 2011 can sync settings for multiple machines, so you can sync settings on one computer and they'll be automatically updated on the other.

For example, if you have Internet Explorer 9 on one computer with standard MSN bookmarks, you can turn on IE syncing and the bookmarks will be quickly brought over to the other PC.

Live Mesh 2011 supports syncing program settings for Vista, Server 2008, OS X 10.5 or higher, Server 2003, and Windows Home Server Version 1.

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