Transferring Programs and Files

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Don- a new Dell will already have Vista installed and should have all
compatible programs and drivers. I bought a Dell in January but it still had
XP on it. I spent nine and half hours upgrading to Vista yesterday. Part of
the problem was the upgrade CD. Dell recommends against doing a clean
install. They're idiots. The clean install was the ONLY way I could upgrade,
the Dell way (migrate files) crashed the upgrade at the 64% download. Clean
install worked fine. All the rest of the time was spent on upgrading my
programs, driversk, etc. It's all working fine now but it took time and a bit
of technical knowledge.
If you buy a new computer this should already be worked out for you by
Dell.
Your old programs will probably work fine with Vista after you go to the
vendor's website and update drivers, etc. Not too tricky. Only a few programs
really won't work with Vista as long as your computer is Vista ready or
already has it installed.
 
Thank you, I forgot to mention that I have Norton Ghost on my XP system. Can
I back up from that to a external item like those stick memory items? Will
that back up every thing? even my photos?
Thank you for your help. If I screw up this up grade I have to listen to my
husband say " I told you so"!. LOL
 
ellisfaith said:
Thank you, I forgot to mention that I have Norton Ghost on my XP system.
Can
I back up from that to a external item like those stick memory items?
Will
that back up every thing? even my photos?
Thank you for your help. If I screw up this up grade I have to listen to
my
husband say " I told you so"!. LOL
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I don't know about Ghost, I don't use it, but I would not recommend using a
flash drive as a secure backup medium. It's ok for temporary storage or for
moving data from one location to another but I would never use it as sole
backup or even as the primary backup. Better to use CD/DVD and best is an
external or networked drive, IMO. I also recommend having duplication on
backups. I have create images to three different external drives,
alternating two of them on a weekly basis for imaging with Acronis True
Image. The third holds a weekly image made by Complete PC backup which is
an imaging program that comes with the Business, Enterprise and Ultimate
versions of Vista. A redundant copy of the current image is burned to DVD.
Some of these are stored off site.

Lol, I'm sure your husband has given you many more opportunities for you to
tell him "I told you so" than the other way around.
 
jagaman said:
I transferred my files over from my old Win-XP Pro to my new Windows Vista.
Office 2003 Pro did not transfer over; all the documents and files did. Is
it impossible to transfer Microsoft Office when you upgrade?
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jagaman said:
I transferred my files over from my old Win-XP Pro to my new Windows Vista.
Office 2003 Pro did not transfer over; all the documents and files did. Is
it impossible to transfer Microsoft Office when you upgrade?
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I transferred Microsoft Excel97 from WindowsME Sony Laptop to a new Gateway
Dual Core Centrino along with my personal files with a SanDisk Cruzer Micro
usb flash drive (Memory Stick). I got it in Best Buy for $35.00 and it worked
great.
 
PS The USB Flash Drive held 1.0 GB

jcshanpop said:
I transferred Microsoft Excel97 from WindowsME Sony Laptop to a new Gateway
Dual Core Centrino along with my personal files with a SanDisk Cruzer Micro
usb flash drive (Memory Stick). I got it in Best Buy for $35.00 and it worked
great.
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I used the Belkin Easy Transfer Cable and the transfer was done quickly and
without any problem. The only issue I have is that I had to create another
user on my new computer and all the data was transferred there. Now I have
to find out how to transfer from the new user to my administrator user. I
don't want more than one user profile on my computer. Anybody have a
solution to that?

Thanks
 
jagaman said:
I transferred my files over from my old Win-XP Pro to my new Windows Vista.
Office 2003 Pro did not transfer over; all the documents and files did. Is
it impossible to transfer Microsoft Office when you upgrade?
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Hi,

In an upgrade, yes. I suspect that is not what you did though. What version
of Vista did you upgrade to? From XP Pro, it would have had to been Business
or Ultimate, other versions would have created a clean install and programs
would not have been migrated.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
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