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I got a laptop and a desktop workstation and I want to have them both in sync. The laptop is running windows 7 32bit and the workstation windows 7 64 bit.

Im currently using Super Flexible Synchronizer to sync files and folders, but what im looking for is really more than a sync. I want to mirror them almost. If i install an application on one of them, i want it done on the other one as well and so on.

Is it possible? any suggestions or ideas?

thanks in advance, Modano

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Installing apps is the tough part of the problem for two reasons. First, apps like to modify the registry and may need activation codes. Second, you have one 32-bit and on 64-bit so information is stored in different locations. There used to be programs to migrate systems from one computer to another, but not sync or two-way sync. Maybe using virtual machines from each machine would be the way to go. That way both machine basically run the same virtual machine. – Scott McClenning Oct 23 '10 at 20:40
@scott don't virtual machines get stored in a data file read by its virtual machine running app. Would you be able to run 2 instances of a virtual machine running app, one on one computer, one on another, bothh reading the same virtual machine file? I'd be suprised if that'd work.. so not clear what you mean scott. – barlop Oct 23 '10 at 20:55
@modano.Probably not out there.There are things quite distant.but perhaps in existence partly because what you suggest isn't out there. Some people use citrix.. which is an application server. people log onto a server, it looks a bit like windows,but it's citrix, and it has familiar looking applications like some form of ms word.I think that's how it works anyway. Another thing, is some apps like some business version anti-virus software,have network versions so you can install it or run it on every computer. – barlop Oct 23 '10 at 21:04
On a related note,I think VNC in linux has multiple screens.All these are apps on one central place though. Be great if you find exactly what you're looking for..it sounds like a great idea. Like being able to run through a GUI installation, and have it affect another computer too. That'd be closer to what you want, but I don't even know of that being out there. – barlop Oct 23 '10 at 21:04
@barlop No, a single virtual machine can only be run on a single machine. Also, the data files would have to be stored somewhere both machines could access or on an external drive. But if you only needed one machine up at once, this may work. Otherwise, as you suggested using one machine for a main machine and remote in from the other could solve this problem. Probably have the desktop remote into the laptop, that way if the laptop leaves the network you still have your data. Unfortunately, I don't believe we can do what @Modano really wants, the way described. That would be nice if we could. – Scott McClenning Oct 23 '10 at 21:21
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