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Transferring system settings to new laptop

Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by gmb1994, Nov 2, 2007.

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I'm planning on purchasing a new laptop.

Is there any software (or process) that will help me transfer my system settings, personalized registry entries, installed applications, documents and settings files and folders over to the new laptop without having to re-install everything?

gmb1994, Nov 2, 2007

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NinjaNoodles Notebook Evangelist

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Acronis Migrate Easy.

NinjaNoodles, Nov 2, 2007

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Thanks for the link. I'm aware of this company.

The only problem I see is that simply copying disk-to-disk will not solve the challenge of also accommodating the driver support for the hardware in the new computer. You can't just stick any hard drive into any computer and expect it to run just fine. There are all kinds of hardware drivers that won't be on the newly installed hard drive. So, the question is how to transfer the registry settings and software-specific drivers onto a new hard drive that is already configured for the new computer.

gmb1994, Nov 6, 2007

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you uninstall drivers after you migrate, then install new drivers for new hardware. no?

Harper2.0, Nov 6, 2007

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