My latest column for Microsoft’s Expert Zone is now available. In it, I share some of my secrets for Moving Files and Settings to a New PC. (It’s not always as easy as it looks!)
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one “gotcha” about using this tool for older computers. You will need to get the program to the old computer, and Windows obligingly asks if you want to create a copy you can run on the old computer. However it won’t burn the program in a CD!!
If you buy a new computer and it doesn’t have a floppy then you can use a USB keychain drive (the removable ones that plug into a USB port) to move the program to the old computer.