Moving Computers

[Locke]

Bear with me my tech saavy cohorts.

The deal here is that I'm moving offices and have to use a totally new computer but there are things that I want to come with me, such as my Firefox with all my remembered passwords and shortcuts.

Is there any way of doing this?

[photon]

I don't know if there's a nice and quick way of doing it, Windows has the Windows Easy Transfer tool in some versions, but I don't know how good it is.

I usually just take a mass backup of my drive and then re-setup the things manually myself (i.e. for Firefox copy the firefox folder c:\users\whatever\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\ Profiles\whatever.default for windows 7)

But that requires some very detailed knowledge (or googling) most times for most software.

[Rathji]

End up with Windows 7?

Just use Windows Easy Transfer. Very simple and you can specify stuff you want transferred that isn't included in default

Edit: Also, take a full copy of your C:\users\locke folder, because Easy transfer doesn't grab things sometimes and that will let you still manually recover them.

[TorqueDog]

x2 on the Windows Easy Transfer tool. It is absolutely brilliant, and much MUCH better than the version that came with Windows XP. I've used it on a couple machines.

It brought details with it that I had no expectation of it remembering. I had changed the LogonUI background from the Windows default, and the Easy Transfer tool brought that with it.

[Locke]

Alright, keep the suggestions coming, but I'm going to explore Easy Transfer.

[Locke]

It doesnt remove anything off the other computer though does it?

[Rathji]

Old stuff should be left intact, if that is what you are asking.

[Vulcan]

I've used firefox sync in the past but the last time I used Windows easy transfer. Both are good.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-firefox-sync

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...-easy-transfer

[Locke]

Firefox sych worked beautifully.

The Easy Transfer worked okay, but it didnt move my Firefox over or my Outlook which are the two things I needed most.

Any suggestions on how to move Outlook across?

[photon]

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...102544948.aspx

Probably depends on what version and how it's setup tho.