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| Files and Settings Transfer Wizard |
| Friday, May 4, 2007 |
This is an excellent tool to help transfer all your stuff from an old PC to a new XP PC.
Briefly, you put the XP CD into your old PC and run the wizard. It finds and compresses all your documents, pictures, music, etc. and either saves it to a medium that can then be connected to your new PC or does the transfer through a network (or cable) connection.
You go to your new PC, put the CD in and run the wizard again to copy the data from the transfer medium to the new PC.
Nowhere in the help files or on the Microsoft web site does it spell out that the Wizard operates on a per-user basis, not on a per-computer basis. In other words:
IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE USER ACCOUNT ON A PC THEN YOU NEED TO USE THE WIZARD ON EACH ACCOUNT.
So four users means 4 file transfers - and you need to ensure that you don’t muddle them up!
If a PC is really messed up I often wipe a customer’s hard drive and reinstall their copy of Windows - this solves a multitude of sins. But if they want their Files and Settings transferred I have to run the wizard for each user - both before I wipe it and then after I have reinstalled.
One or two things to remember.
1. The Wizard will not transfer passwords.
2. The Wizard expects your stuff to be stored in the Microsoft way - in My Documents, etc. If you have stuff in other folders it may well ignore it.
3. Most people don’t get the XP CD with their new PC - so how do they run the wizard?
Fire up the new PC and go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools where you will find a copy of the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.
Run the wizard and tell it that this is your new PC. It will then offer to create a Wizard Disk for you to use in your old PC. (Providing both PC’s have got floppy drives!).Labels: PC Tips N Tricks and Tweaks |
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