Going to attempt to figure it out right now, but yes help wouldn't hurt have never done this before.
is it possible to sync a windows desktop qt client?
Where are you based? I had trouble syncing from the UK but my other systems (In the US) synced fine, first time.
Have you added the nodes detailed below to your client? Do you need help adding them?
addnode=198.205.118.181:4777
addnode=191.101.9.62:4777
addnode=218.24.154.38:4777
addnode=61.235.146.130:4777
addnode=144.76.123.194:4777
addnode=92.222.37.29:4777
addnode=80.74.157.31:4777