Installing google desktop

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Lynn Brem is a geek from Seattle, USA who is fond of electronic gadgets and is particularly interested in how they can be used to remind us to do things that are more interesting and important to us than going to meetings.

Skip to content. Index by topic Reader survey Contact Lynn. Motivate yourself with an image collection ». Click Agree and Download. A download dialogue box will open for the file GoogleDesktopSetup.

Depending on your browser configuration, it may offer to open the file or save it to disk. Click through the steps to download and open GoogleDesktopSetup.

That will start the Google Desktop Installer. If you have some other programs open it may ask you to close them. Go ahead and do that. Next you will see the initial Preferences page. Click Set preferences and continue. I do recommend reading through all four pages of Preferences and making decisions about what you want Google to index.

Make sure the Search Box setting is Sidebar. When you have finished going through the Preferences pages click Save Preferences. Other articles in the Google Gadget series Widgets and gadgets and klips oh my! This entry was posted in Deliver your message. Bookmark the permalink. Comments are closed, but you can leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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Yeah, I want that. Step 2: Click Download Drive for desktop and save the. You have two options here. Sync with Google Drive: It will upload all files and folders, including photos and videos.

If you edit or remove files, those changes will be automatically synced. Back up to Google Photos: Google Photos is purely a media backup service. It will skip files and documents from the folder and only upload photos, gifs, and videos to Google Photos. This is one of the best features that Google borrowed from Drive File Stream. Instead of syncing Drive folders to PC, you have an option to stream the entire Google Drive library to the computer.

This should be the ideal option for most to use in Google Drive for Windows It will keep all the My Drive files in the cloud, and you have an option to keep necessary files offline on the PC. You can keep a file or folder that you need for offline use. But be careful. Whatever folder you select, Drive will store all the folder content on computer and cloud. You can mirror them on a PC and keep them available for offline use anytime.

As for this tutorial, we will use the Stream files option as it makes sense for most out there. Step 3: You will see all the files and folders with a little cloud icon.

That means these files and folders are online only. You need to download them to see the content. Step 4: Right-click on the file you want to use and open the context menu. Once you download the file, you will see a checkmark beside the thumbnail. Drive will remove the file from the PC and keep it online only.