Moving laptops

Not sure if this was the right category to post this but my new Alienware M14x will be arriving some time this week so i want to back up all the required software from my Asus G73 because i plan to sell the laptop.

Is there a program that creates an image of my current desktop and when i get my new laptop i can just restore using that image and everything will be exactly like my old laptop. Similar to the restore function in iDevices where you can back up a restore file on your old iDevice so when you get a new one it will appear exactly the same as your old one?

I'm also concerned about backing up my iTunes library. It's not the songs but really the album art. Is there anyone to back up the album art? It may be obsessive but with each new album/song i get i make sure it has a album art. It usually doesn't so i usually find the image of the album art through wikipedia and drag it to iTunes. When i my Asus G73 was new i painfully had to go through all my albums and add the album art.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Press win -button, type in transfer and select Windows Easy Transfer.

I can't promise it will do everything but it's worth a try

I keep album art embedded inside the mp3 files themselves. Works most of the time.

 

Congrats, another ASUS ship jumper - I am right behind you. Get a program like Free Backup Software: Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition - Overview and create an image on an external hard drive. You can go to C:\Users\username\Desktop (in the image) and copy the short cuts from the image file to the new computer, but you will still have to install all the programs that you need on the AW.

 

If you make a system image of your G73, it cannot be directly restored to your M14x. (hardware drivers and stuff like that).

Here's what I do... it's a bit lengthy. I backup any necessary data and also make a full copy of the AppData folder. When you install iTunes onto your new machine, it will not have the library file or any playlists. That is to say not until you then paste the appdata folders for iTunes. Relaunch and library files are there, as well as playlists. I just did this a few weeks ago for a friend of mine and it went swimmingly. He's also a Chrome fanatic. When I first reinstalled Chrome, it was the normal startup. I then pasted the appdata folders and relaunched. BAM, all of his little customizations, tabs, and wallpapers were there.

I think the AppData folder is the most overlooked thing when it comes to data transfer.

Album art is usually stored withing the tage of the song itself, or as a hidden file (called folder.jpg) within the album folder. Regardless of how you move your data, album art should follow without issue.