Last weekend, my eldest daughter asked if she could use one of my ultra-lightweight laptop personal computers for work when she travels. I have two, so I was happy to oblige. But all my data, settings and programs were on the one my daughter would take, so I needed to get them on to the other laptop.

There are several ways to ach­ieve this, dep­ending on what you need to transfer. If you simply need to move a few doc­uments or files that take up less than a few gigabytes of space, the easiest approach is to use a USB flash memory drive or burn the files to a set of CDs or DVDs.