102  Synchronizing Information With Your Computer

5.1 About Synchronization

You can take information from your computer wherever you go by synchronizing them to your device. The following types of information can be synchronized between your computer and your device:

Microsoft® Office Outlook® information, which include Office Outlook e- mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes

Notes, which are created using Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2007

Media, such as pictures, music, and video

Favorites, which are the bookmarked links to your favorite web sites

Files, such as documents and other files

Before you can synchronize, you need to install and set up first the synchronization software on your computer. For more information, see “Setting Up Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows Vista®” and “Setting Up ActiveSync® on Windows® XP” in this chapter.

Note ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center only synchronises data on your computer and device. If you have installed a storage card and you want to back up files from the storage card, use Windows Explorer on your computer to copy files from the storage card to your computer.

Ways to synchronize

After you have installed the synchronization software on your computer, connect and synchronize your device with your computer by:

Using the supplied USB sync cable.

Upon connecting the sync cable to your device and your computer, the synchronization process automatically starts.

Using Bluetooth.

You must first set up a Bluetooth partnership between your device and your computer before you can synchronize information between them using

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