If you are looking to access your Skydrive account from your desktop, Gladinet is the application for you. Download Gladinet Starter edition (FREE) Start the installer. At the end of the installation, it will prompt you to do some initial configuration. Select a drive letter for Gladinet to mount to. Make sure that the drive letter does not conflict with any existing drive. Click OK to continue. In the next window, click on the Mount Disk Storage Under the service provider, select Windows Live Skydrive from the dropdown bar. Of course, if you are using other storage services, you can also configure them the same way here. Enter your login credential. You can now access your Skydrive right from the desktop. The advantage of using Gladinet is that it mount the online storage as a network drive in your system (and it does not do a sync), so even if you computer has less than 25GB of space, you can still mount it and access all your data (you will need an Internet connection though). In addition, the ability to mount several online storage services mean that you won’t ever face the problem of insufficient storage space again. Gladinet comes with a Starter edition (free), Professional edition ($29.99) and a Premium edition that is due to be released soon. Personally, I have found that the Starter edition contains features more than I ever need and is sufficient for me. However, if you require more features, you can always upgrade to the Professional edition easily. What other ways do you use to access Windows Live Skydrive?
