Having Purchased Music on two Computers?

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I have a Toshiba laptop, running WinXP, I use for work and a Dell XPS desktop, running WinXP, I use at home.
All of my purchased music is on the desktop. Is there an easy way to export my library to the laptop? I would like both computers to have the identical library.
Thanks

The simplest thing to do would be to network the two computers and transfer your iTunes folder from one to another. Here are a few links that may help you out:
New PC & moving iTunes library
iTunes: Copying music between authorised computers with iTunes for Windows

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