Pcmover software review

The Laplink cables are designed to work with the software, and you have to use them in order to get technical support. You can get a Laplink cable from the company's website. Once you start the transfer, you can leave the computer to finish it on its own.

If your computers are connected to the internet, the software gives you the option before starting the transfer to input an email address or phone number. You can have the software send you an email or text message to let you know when the migration is complete.

PCmover offers several migration options. You can migrate from an old PC to a new PC or an old operating system to a new system on the same PC if you are just upgrading your operating system. You also have the option to restore contents to your new PC from an old hard drive or image if your old PC no longer works but your hard drive is still intact. The software offers native migration. This means that all the old files, folders and settings from the source the old PC or operating system are integrated directly with the target system the new PC or operating system.

The result is that your new PC gets the same feel as your old system, but with newer hardware and an operating system. You should be able to use most of your programs as well.

However, Laplink warns that not all applications you might migrate are compatible with newer operating systems. For example, a program that works on your old Windows XP system might not work on a Windows 8. Most transferred applications are installed ready-to-use, so there's no need to find old CDs or previously downloaded applications, serial numbers, or license codes.

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I used an usb drive to move the files, which I found quite handy. Once the snapshot is loaded, you again have some choices for file transfer: Full which moves everythingfiles, programs and settings , or Trial move of only specific files types. You do have the option of forgoing this step, but doing so will create an increased file size.

However, it may be a preferred option if you are moving the data to a temporary storage location, or to more than 1 other computer. When you open the file in the destination computer, you select which settings and data files from a specific computer account, which some households have one computer that family members share, so they would have multiple user accounts. Once you select the accounts, you can also choose whether that account should be a regular, guest or administrative user on the destination system.

The snapshot is parses the file and extracts the required settings, applications or data files. This could be a lengthy process depending on the hard drive size of the originating system, the number of installed programs and stored data files. Afterwards you can select where this information should be placed in the new computer, whether in the local C drive, or an additional location. Sometime a large computer may contain multiple partitions and this choice would be applicable in this instance.

You can also exclude certain files and folders the transfer and the system automatically senses system folders that should be excluded and marks them with a red X omission symbol ex.

Recycle Bin, System Volume Information, etc. In addition to excluding specific folder, you are also given the option to various exclude file types. The software suggest.

During the next stage of the transfer process. I selected only my documents folder and two other data folders which were done rather quickly less than 45 seconds. The file size was just megabytes, containing files.

The system will compress this when the actual file is migrated. What is needed is to run the same process on the destination computer so that you can move the files into it. Is the moving van the Migration choice, the Windows 7 option or the ImageAssistant, because those are the only options displayed when you start PC Mover on the destination computer. However, once you create the snapshot, enter the email address for the job complete notification, you will be shown the moving van screen, if you have chosen to move files only.

This process seems to be a bit out of order to me. That should be the last step. Finally, after all this preparation the file transfer begins and moments later I received a message in my email account that the transfer had complete.