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So, I fianlly am replacing my 4-5yro Gateway P2 450mhz with a Dell...
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And you might even be able to slap in a 1.4Ghz CPU into the old Gateway, thus giving you a nice machine for the wife or the kids or whatever.
What is the best way to get my bookmarks/favorites from my old hard drive to my new HD?
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Somewhere in your old computer is a folder called Favorites. Copy the contents thereof into the Favorites folder in your new computer.
Same goes for my e-mails ? I think I pretty much have everything else covered.
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Look for files with the .dbx ending (you might have to enable "show all file extension" in Windows Explorer. Do that on both machines.) Copy the complete folder on the computer, there, open your e-mail program and import the e-mails from it.
The one thing that is about DSL (I use Bellsouth) how to I move that from one to the other?
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Well, since you'll have two computers, you might as well connect them to each other (also saves you the time to burn all the files from the old PC on CDs, just copy them from harddrive to harddrive), and have them share the DSL connection. Go buy a hub for about 20 bucks, cables for about $6, the new comp should have a network card already, if not, they are about 9 to 40 bucks.
Setting up the network is a piece of cake (just come back here and ask ;)
Where was I? Right. The idea here was how to configure your new PC for the DSL connection. Normally, you won't have to do a thing. Plug your DSL thingie into the phone jack, and the other end connects to the hub, and from the hub you go to your respective computers. Normally, you don't have to set anything up on the PCs nor should you have to install any kind of "dial-up" software, but if it doesn't work right away, come back here, and you'll get help.