Windows Live Mesh

One of the features appreciated by Dropbox users is that it uses only one folder for synchronisation. You drop inside everything you want synchronised and it works. What most people don’t know is that Windows Live Mesh can easily work with a similar setup, for those who are more comfortable working this way. Here’s how to do it.

One less known feature of Microsoft’s SkyDrive and Windows Live Mesh, is that they allow you to share and synchronize folders with other people using the same platform. This tutorial will share how this works, the limitations of this feature and what would be nice for Microsoft to add in the future, in terms of useful functionality. Read on to find out more.

In this tutorial about Windows Live Mesh, I will share all the options you have for managing the devices being synchronized. As you will see, you get granular control of every important aspect: customizing synchronized devices, removing devices, controlling what gets synchronized with the cloud storage from Microsoft, etc.

One of the least known and used feature of Windows Live Mesh is its ability to synchronize your Internet Explorer favorites and some of the user configurations in Microsoft Office. If you want to learn more about how this works, check out this tutorial.

After a bit of break, it is time to resume our series of articles on Windows Live Mesh. This time I will cover a great feature I recently discovered: the ability to make remote desktop connections from a web browser. If you are using Windows Live Mesh, this is done very easily. Let’s see how it works.

Let’s continue the series of articles dedicated to Windows Live Mesh with a tutorial about connecting remotely to other computers. This guide will show how to make a remote desktop connection, how to disconnect a connection and how to configure details such as the size of the screen used during the remote session.

One of the very useful features included in Windows Live Mesh is the possibility to make remote desktop connections via the Internet, between the computers being synced with your Windows Live ID. However, this feature is not enabled by default. You need to enable it manually on each computer. This tutorial will show how to enable (or disable) remote desktop connections in Windows Live Mesh.