Oh knowledgeable one,

Every couple of years I upgrade my workstation and/or laptop. It is a major
hassle to move all my documents, email, and other junk from the old to the
new. Is there a feature in Windows XP or a software package out there that
will do all that for me?

Thank you for sharing.
Jeff

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Jeffrey Kaufman
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www.keydata.us
510-486-9015 office
510-486-9016 fax
559-432-3832 cell

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888-WestPac

"Jeffrey Kaufman" <jkaufman (AT) keydata (DOT) us> wrote


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rog

Jeffrey Kaufman wrote:
Windows Migration Tool.

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frosty

Try the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. I just did a migration from XP
to XP and it worked fine.

Ed

"Jeffrey Kaufman" <jkaufman (AT) keydata (DOT) us> wrote

Many thanks to all of you who responded, both written and telepathically. I
admit I did not receive all of the responses.

"Ed Sheehan" <NOedsSPAM (AT) xmission (DOT) com> wrote

I don't have a problem with data per-se, because I wrote code to
backup all of my data no matter where it's stored. The problem is
getting everything else right. A new system is never the same as the
old one. For example:
- I have to reinstall every program and then manually tweek all the
Tools>Options settings. The perfect migration tool would be aware of
where each program stores its settings so that it could restore those
settings to a new environment- INI, Registry, .conf files, etc.
- I heavily customize Outlook with scripts and toolbar buttons. I'm
not sure the MS Office "Save My Settings Wizard" gets all of these.
- Some software will store its data in esotheric places under the
Documents and Settings tree. Unless I know about this I can't save
the data. The only real solution is to monitor the tree for changes
and then update my backup.
- Then there are all those little OS tweaks, taskbar settings, and
tweaks to IE which need to be manually re-done on a new box.

I welcome solutions to these issues as well.

Thanks.
T



"Jeffrey Kaufman" <jkaufman (AT) keydata (DOT) us> wrote:

If I understand correctly, Ultra is licensed for a single target
system. So this is one-shot software, not something you'd use more
than once to rebuild your system every couple months? If it's that
good then it would be ideal to cure the issue of "bit-rot" where a
system gets so saturated with registry crap and temp files that it
starts failing for no reason at all. Sort of like what I see every
couple months.

And lest someone tell me Linux is immune to this, I know better -
Linux is as cryptic about where it locates software and config files
as Windows, but I know it's getting a little better as time goes on.

T

"Glen B" <no$pamwebmaster@no$pamforallspec.com> wrote:

Tony Gravagno wrote:

It says in the FAQ that you can use it as many times as you like, as
long as the target system is the same. It's licensed per target system.

I'm switching to BeOS. The url is.. Damn! To late.

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Kevin Powick

I use ghost (norton) - v6.0 - it makes an absolute image of the disk
into an image file. Its best use is on a network with any number of
similarly built pcs - it has a facility called MultiCast, which can
take one image and blow it out onto multiple pcs. It also has an
explorer that can give a Wind0ws Expl0rer type view of the contents of
the image for individual file extraction later..