http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/Jan 25th 2006 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/ For a free programs and setting transfer try to use PickMeApp ( www.pickmeapp.com). The tool transfers application in two steps. Firstly, it captures selected applications and stores it on a destination location. The location for captured applications can be usb flash memory, network drive, and etc. Then, with help of PickMeApp, you may recreate captured applications on any PC in a few seconds.
]]>Oct 10th 2008 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/-Chris]]>Jan 25th 2006 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/Is what went through my head immediately.]]>Jan 25th 2006 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/
You can download Ghost from symantec for $70. While that's more expensive than the laplink software, if you need to migrate more than once you can keep using ghost for years to come.

The great thing about GHOST over and above the Laplink software is you can use it as a backup tool once the migration is done. Once a month (or whatever schedule you want) just make a new GHOST image of your computer, either to another harddrive or DVD/CD media. If your computer breaks down or starts behaving erratically, you have a complete backup to restore from. ]]>Jan 25th 2006 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/Jan 25th 2006 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/
Keep up the hard work Microsoft, you're almost there...]]>Jan 25th 2006 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/
I do, however, think that the license sucks. 1 migration? How is it enforced? Last week I set up my comp-uter, migrated a bunch of stuff by hand, then started having crashes - traced it t a bad motherboard that only acted up wen warmed up, replaced that and migrated again. If I used Laplink, would they have forced me to buy two copies through some sort of copy protection scam - er, scheme?]]>Jan 25th 2006 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/setup/

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On the Mac, when you unpack it and switch it on the first time, it asks you if you want to migrate users, their data and applications from a previous Mac. All you then do is attach a firewire cable to the old Mac and boot that in target disk mode. It transfers everything over. Job done.]]>Jan 25th 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/
Your average person's windows box often has so much crap on it it doesn't run half as fast as a clean install of windows would.]]>Jan 25th 2006 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/Jan 25th 2006 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/Jan 25th 2006 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/
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To cover all the "normal" applications, you simply need to:

1. Copy the contents of the Applications folder
2. Copy both the user and the System's Library folder
3. Copy the contents of any other personal folders the user may have]]>Jan 25th 2006 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/Jan 25th 2006 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/
There's a support forum for both Ghost and LSR on www.boardfish.com. ]]>Jan 25th 2006 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.laplink.com/promos/pcmoverzd/]]>Jan 26th 2006 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/switched-on-a-moving-experience/Feb 2nd 2006 4:37AM