-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Computer Advice
- From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:33:23 -0500
I have to chuckle - my old pc's are usually so loaded
down... And there are newer versions of software out. I
start with a clean slate. I am missing my paint shop plugins
though - which, I have on a cd somewhere, but haven't
installed yet. I tend to burn everything to cd's... then I
can just pop them in if I want them. Other than progams.
Cris
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:07 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Computer Advice
Yep. XP has a File and Settings Transfer wizard on the cd.
It gathers up you're the files you tell it, and desktop
settings etc,
compresses them and asks you how you wish to transfer them
to the new pc -
by cable, network cd external hard drive etc.
However I still believe doing it manually will save you some
grey hairs!
I build, update and fix pc's for a living and what I
normally do is to ask
my customer to put all their required files in one folder on
the root of
their C: drive. Then once their new pc is built, I take
their old hard drive
out of the old machine, connect it to the new machine, copy
the folder, then
re fit it back to the old machine.
This is not hard to do, and if you get stuck there are
plenty of people on
this list to help you out.
regards
Chris
chris@xxxxxxxxxx
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cris
Sent: 22 December 2004 12:52
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Computer Advice
and - I have no clue where to find it or how to use it, but
a friend just bought a new pc, and she said XP has some sort
of transfer wizard that she used.
Has anyone heard of this?
I can ask her what she was able to transfer, and how it
worked.
Unless I totally mis-understood her. It usually takes a few
days to hear back from her.
Cris
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:18 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Computer Advice
The easiest way to avoid extra grey hairs is to install the
programs from
the original cd's on your new pc. And burn the updates on to
a cd so you can
then apply the updates to the new computer.
Buy yourself a CD-RW for 25p to do this and save your money
you were going
to spend on the transfer program and cable.
Chris
chris@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.spotta.com
-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Sdunlap3@xxxxxxx
Sent: 22 December 2004 10:33
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Computer Advice
Thanks to everyone for all the good advice. Now I have one
more question -
I
am thinking of getting a program called Transfer Your
Programs so I can get
all my stuff from this computer to the new one. It comes
with a cable to
hook
up one computer to the other. Has anyone used this, and am
I going to have
any trouble with it? I'm not too computer literate and if
anybody can have
something go wrong, it's me!
If I DON'T use this and just re-install my programs from
CDs, I've got lots
of programs that had updates and I saved those in a file.
They are .exe
files.
If I just copy these to a CD and put them on the new
computer and then just
click on them, will they work to update my programs, or do I
have to find
all
the websites and re-download all the updates?
Sue in Bridgeport, Mi.
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