Transfer RAW File with Edited Information?

I have Lightroom on my laptop and desktop pc (Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit respectively). I copied some Canon CR2 RAW files to my laptop in the field and edited some of the files. Is there a way to transfer those changes, along with the files, to my desktop pc?

Presumably you have a temporary LR catalog on the LT to do your edits but your permanent catalog is on the DT?
On your LT, if you use Library / Metadata / Save Metadata to FileS (plural) with the images selected in the Library Grid view, you should get an XMP file for each CR2 file containing the snapshot of the adjustments when you do the save. Copy both the CR2 and the XMP file to your desktop, and when you import the changes will be part of the initial import state. If you have already imported the files on your DT w/o the XMPs, then remove them from the DT Library (but not disk) and reimport them after copying the XMP files over.
If this is a one-time thing then the CR2/XMP one-time transfer is ok.
Depending on what else is in your LT's LR catalog, you can export a catalog, there, with just your images and their adjustments, and import that catalog on your DT, changing the paths to the images if necessary on the DT side.
Presumably you know how to copy files (CR2s, XMPs, LRCATs) from your laptop to your desktop through a network or USB-attached drive of some sort, right?
Either of these processes is a little bit messy. If you will be doing this on an ongoing basis then think about how to make the process as simple as possible. What I do is have the LR catalog and the images (for the last year, at least) on a 1TB USB3-speed external drive that I bought at Best Buy, where the drive letter is configured to be the same on both computers I use LR on, and then I just plug in the USB-drive to whichever computer I want to use at the moment. I backup the entire contents of the drive every night to another USB3-speed drive so if I ever drop the one I'm carrying around and destroy it, then I have another copy of everything.
The initial copy took a long time but the replication of changes every night doesn't take too long. I use KarenWare's PTReplicator to schedule a replication of my Pictures folders every night at 2am. There are other similar programs to facilitate one-way replication like RoboCopy and SyncToy and DoubleTake.

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