Posted: 5/21/2010 7:33:00 AM EDT
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My husband announced last night that he ordered the new laptop that I've been desperately needing.
What's the easiest (and when I say *easiest* keep in mind that I'm the sort who turns it off and back on if there's an issue and if that doesn't fix it I'm out of ideas  ) way to transfer my pictures and stuff. Make a cd of them? I think pictures are the only things I have that will need to be transferred. Maybe games but I should have the registration keys for most of those.........
Not looking forward to this process but thrilled that I'll have sound again and not deal with the slowness and freezing up I deal with now! |
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Quoted: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/windows-easy-transfer.aspxMy husband announced last night that he ordered the new laptop that I've been desperately needing. What's the easiest (and when I say *easiest* keep in mind that I'm the sort who turns it off and back on if there's an issue and if that doesn't fix it I'm out of ideas ) way to transfer my pictures and stuff. Make a cd of them? I think pictures are the only things I have that will need to be transferred. Maybe games but I should have the registration keys for most of those.........Not looking forward to this process but thrilled that I'll have sound again and not deal with the slowness and freezing up I deal with now! You will need a cable to tie the computers together. A male - male USB cable should be easy to find online. Try monoprice or other cheap site. |
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Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media?
If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. |
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My husband announced last night that he ordered the new laptop that I've been desperately needing. What's the easiest (and when I say *easiest* keep in mind that I'm the sort who turns it off and back on if there's an issue and if that doesn't fix it I'm out of ideas ) way to transfer my pictures and stuff. Make a cd of them? I think pictures are the only things I have that will need to be transferred. Maybe games but I should have the registration keys for most of those.........
Not looking forward to this process but thrilled that I'll have sound again and not deal with the slowness and freezing up I deal with now! You will need a cable to tie the computers together. A male - male USB cable should be easy to find online. Try monoprice or other cheap site. That looks neat........I wonder how customizable it is. I have a lot of stuff I want to get rid of and I was going to use this process to cull through the crap. I'm not sure what's bogging my laptop now down so much but I'd be pissed if it happened to the new one because of all my crap! 
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Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. No. I've been chewed out for that before. To be fair, a hell of a lot of them are on photobucket and drop box so not in danger of being lost. But I do need to get in the habit of backing things up.
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Quoted: Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. Always make a backup. This is great advice. Make backups, then use the transfer wizard. Get both! |
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Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. I sure learned this lesson the hard way. On that note, if anybody knows how to get info off of a hard drive that vibrates so hard on start up that it can't reach operational speed, please let me know! |
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Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. Always make a backup. This is great advice. Make backups, then use the transfer wizard. Get both! 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/windows-easy-transfer.aspxMy husband announced last night that he ordered the new laptop that I've been desperately needing. What's the easiest (and when I say *easiest* keep in mind that I'm the sort who turns it off and back on if there's an issue and if that doesn't fix it I'm out of ideas ) way to transfer my pictures and stuff. Make a cd of them? I think pictures are the only things I have that will need to be transferred. Maybe games but I should have the registration keys for most of those.........Not looking forward to this process but thrilled that I'll have sound again and not deal with the slowness and freezing up I deal with now! You will need a cable to tie the computers together. A male - male USB cable should be easy to find online. Try monoprice or other cheap site. That looks neat........I wonder how customizable it is. I have a lot of stuff I want to get rid of and I was going to use this process to cull through the crap. I'm not sure what's bogging my laptop now down so much but I'd be pissed if it happened to the new one because of all my crap! It is easy. You can select what you want to transfer down to individual files. |
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/windows-easy-transfer.aspx
My husband announced last night that he ordered the new laptop that I've been desperately needing. What's the easiest (and when I say *easiest* keep in mind that I'm the sort who turns it off and back on if there's an issue and if that doesn't fix it I'm out of ideas ) way to transfer my pictures and stuff. Make a cd of them? I think pictures are the only things I have that will need to be transferred. Maybe games but I should have the registration keys for most of those.........
Not looking forward to this process but thrilled that I'll have sound again and not deal with the slowness and freezing up I deal with now! You will need a cable to tie the computers together. A male - male USB cable should be easy to find online. Try monoprice or other cheap site. use a flashdrive instead. |
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If you have one of those usb memory sticks (example: link), you can use that to copy only the files you want over. Admittedly, it is kind of tedious, but you get to pick and choose which files you want transferred over to the new computer. |
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/windows-easy-transfer.aspx
My husband announced last night that he ordered the new laptop that I've been desperately needing. What's the easiest (and when I say *easiest* keep in mind that I'm the sort who turns it off and back on if there's an issue and if that doesn't fix it I'm out of ideas ) way to transfer my pictures and stuff. Make a cd of them? I think pictures are the only things I have that will need to be transferred. Maybe games but I should have the registration keys for most of those.........
Not looking forward to this process but thrilled that I'll have sound again and not deal with the slowness and freezing up I deal with now! You will need a cable to tie the computers together. A male - male USB cable should be easy to find online. Try monoprice or other cheap site. That looks neat........I wonder how customizable it is. I have a lot of stuff I want to get rid of and I was going to use this process to cull through the crap. I'm not sure what's bogging my laptop now down so much but I'd be pissed if it happened to the new one because of all my crap!
Only worry about it if you have tons of things running at the same time, thats more than likely a cause for the slowdown, however if the laptop was old, understand that the web is a different place today than when that was made and computing requirements are higher than they used to be |
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If you have one of those usb memory sticks (example: link), you can use that to copy only the files you want over. Admittedly, it is kind of tedious, but you get to pick and choose which files you want transferred over to the new computer. And flash drives are cheap and handy. |
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Quoted: Quoted: If you have one of those usb memory sticks (example: link), you can use that to copy only the files you want over. Admittedly, it is kind of tedious, but you get to pick and choose which files you want transferred over to the new computer. And flash drives are cheap and handy. It depends on how much data she has to transfer. |
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If you have one of those usb memory sticks (example: link), you can use that to copy only the files you want over. Admittedly, it is kind of tedious, but you get to pick and choose which files you want transferred over to the new computer. And flash drives are cheap and handy. yep, or make an investment and buy an external Hard Drive, and then copy them to your new computer and keep a copy on your external HD to have a backup |
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Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. No. I've been chewed out for that before. To be fair, a hell of a lot of them are on photobucket and drop box so not in danger of being lost. But I do need to get in the habit of backing things up.Do you remember a website called Photopoint.com? Probably not. Let me tell you a story. Back in the 1990s stockshift was a poor grad student. He was using a cheap Dell 486 laptop because he couldn't afford better. The laptop, in addition to having a blazingly fast 25 MHz CPU (not a misprint), had a very small hard drive. He had a lot of digital photos but no space, so he uploaded them to photopoint.com. The dot com crash comes around. Photopoint.com goes out of business. stockshift goes to get his photos but the website and server has been bought by another company. The site says they will give him his photos back if he pays them a certain amount of money. Credit card in hand, he emails them but never gets a response. All his photos disappeared into the ether. 
I'm not saying Photobucket is going to go out of business, but it has happened before. Don't let it happen to you. |
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/windows-easy-transfer.aspx
My husband announced last night that he ordered the new laptop that I've been desperately needing. What's the easiest (and when I say *easiest* keep in mind that I'm the sort who turns it off and back on if there's an issue and if that doesn't fix it I'm out of ideas ) way to transfer my pictures and stuff. Make a cd of them? I think pictures are the only things I have that will need to be transferred. Maybe games but I should have the registration keys for most of those.........
Not looking forward to this process but thrilled that I'll have sound again and not deal with the slowness and freezing up I deal with now! You will need a cable to tie the computers together. A male - male USB cable should be easy to find online. Try monoprice or other cheap site. That looks neat........I wonder how customizable it is. I have a lot of stuff I want to get rid of and I was going to use this process to cull through the crap. I'm not sure what's bogging my laptop now down so much but I'd be pissed if it happened to the new one because of all my crap!
Only worry about it if you have tons of things running at the same time, thats more than likely a cause for the slowdown, however if the laptop was old, understand that the web is a different place today than when that was made and computing requirements are higher than they used to be I think there probably are. I have over 50 processes running at startup. I went to take care of that once but had no clue what I needed and didn't need so I abandoned it.  I've had the laptop about 5 years.
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Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. No. I've been chewed out for that before. To be fair, a hell of a lot of them are on photobucket and drop box so not in danger of being lost. But I do need to get in the habit of backing things up.Do you remember a website called Photopoint.com? Probably not. Let me tell you a story. Back in the 1990s stockshift was a poor grad student. He was using a cheap Dell 486 laptop because he couldn't afford better. The laptop, in addition to having a blazingly fast 25 MHz CPU (not a misprint), had a very small hard drive. He had a lot of digital photos but no space, so he uploaded them to photopoint.com. The dot com crash comes around. Photopoint.com goes out of business. stockshift goes to get his photos but the website and server has been bought by another company. The site says they will give him his photos back if he pays them a certain amount of money. Credit card in hand, he emails them but never gets a response. All his photos disappeared into the ether.
I'm not saying Photobucket is going to go out of business, but it has happened before. Don't let it happen to you.  I intend to go into this new computer a lot more prepared and proactive that I was with this one. I want to keep it running smoothly and not load it down with all sorts of nonsense. It's just a matter of me getting computer savvy enough to know what to do. 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/windows-easy-transfer.aspxMy husband announced last night that he ordered the new laptop that I've been desperately needing. What's the easiest (and when I say *easiest* keep in mind that I'm the sort who turns it off and back on if there's an issue and if that doesn't fix it I'm out of ideas ) way to transfer my pictures and stuff. Make a cd of them? I think pictures are the only things I have that will need to be transferred. Maybe games but I should have the registration keys for most of those.........Not looking forward to this process but thrilled that I'll have sound again and not deal with the slowness and freezing up I deal with now! You will need a cable to tie the computers together. A male - male USB cable should be easy to find online. Try monoprice or other cheap site. use a flashdrive instead. But keep backups on magnetic media and optical. Flash RAM dies at the worst time. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. No. I've been chewed out for that before. To be fair, a hell of a lot of them are on photobucket and drop box so not in danger of being lost. But I do need to get in the habit of backing things up.Do you remember a website called Photopoint.com? Probably not. Let me tell you a story. Back in the 1990s stockshift was a poor grad student. He was using a cheap Dell 486 laptop because he couldn't afford better. The laptop, in addition to having a blazingly fast 25 MHz CPU (not a misprint), had a very small hard drive. He had a lot of digital photos but no space, so he uploaded them to photopoint.com. The dot com crash comes around. Photopoint.com goes out of business. stockshift goes to get his photos but the website and server has been bought by another company. The site says they will give him his photos back if he pays them a certain amount of money. Credit card in hand, he emails them but never gets a response. All his photos disappeared into the ether. I'm not saying Photobucket is going to go out of business, but it has happened before. Don't let it happen to you. I intend to go into this new computer a lot more prepared and proactive that I was with this one. I want to keep it running smoothly and not load it down with all sorts of nonsense. It's just a matter of me getting computer savvy enough to know what to do. Win7 has a backup wizard that will run at regular intervals to an external drive. I use it on my Laptop and make backups to the file server at home weekly. |
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Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. No. I've been chewed out for that before. To be fair, a hell of a lot of them are on photobucket and drop box so not in danger of being lost. But I do need to get in the habit of backing things up.Do you remember a website called Photopoint.com? Probably not. Let me tell you a story. Back in the 1990s stockshift was a poor grad student. He was using a cheap Dell 486 laptop because he couldn't afford better. The laptop, in addition to having a blazingly fast 25 MHz CPU (not a misprint), had a very small hard drive. He had a lot of digital photos but no space, so he uploaded them to photopoint.com. The dot com crash comes around. Photopoint.com goes out of business. stockshift goes to get his photos but the website and server has been bought by another company. The site says they will give him his photos back if he pays them a certain amount of money. Credit card in hand, he emails them but never gets a response. All his photos disappeared into the ether.
I'm not saying Photobucket is going to go out of business, but it has happened before. Don't let it happen to you. I intend to go into this new computer a lot more prepared and proactive that I was with this one. I want to keep it running smoothly and not load it down with all sorts of nonsense. It's just a matter of me getting computer savvy enough to know what to do.
Win7 has a backup wizard that will run at regular intervals to an external drive. I use it on my Laptop and make backups to the file server at home weekly. Awesome! You've been very helpful in all of my whiny computer threads lately. So thanks! 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. No. I've been chewed out for that before. To be fair, a hell of a lot of them are on photobucket and drop box so not in danger of being lost. But I do need to get in the habit of backing things up.Do you remember a website called Photopoint.com? Probably not. Let me tell you a story. Back in the 1990s stockshift was a poor grad student. He was using a cheap Dell 486 laptop because he couldn't afford better. The laptop, in addition to having a blazingly fast 25 MHz CPU (not a misprint), had a very small hard drive. He had a lot of digital photos but no space, so he uploaded them to photopoint.com. The dot com crash comes around. Photopoint.com goes out of business. stockshift goes to get his photos but the website and server has been bought by another company. The site says they will give him his photos back if he pays them a certain amount of money. Credit card in hand, he emails them but never gets a response. All his photos disappeared into the ether. I'm not saying Photobucket is going to go out of business, but it has happened before. Don't let it happen to you. I intend to go into this new computer a lot more prepared and proactive that I was with this one. I want to keep it running smoothly and not load it down with all sorts of nonsense. It's just a matter of me getting computer savvy enough to know what to do. Win7 has a backup wizard that will run at regular intervals to an external drive. I use it on my Laptop and make backups to the file server at home weekly. Awesome! You've been very helpful in all of my whiny computer threads lately. So thanks!  |
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Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. I sure learned this lesson the hard way. On that note, if anybody knows how to get info off of a hard drive that vibrates so hard on start up that it can't reach operational speed, please let me know! Sounds like a terminal server issue. |
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Put it in the freezer.. it may help. Leave it in the freezer for a couple of hours and them put it back in the computer... be quick trying to get data off of it because the cooling effect is only temporary.
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Do you have a backup of your "pictures and stuff" on an external hard drive or DVD/CD media? If not, I highly recommend making one, stat! Not only does it help to transfer your stuff from an old PC to a new one, you are protected in the inevitable event of hard drive failure. I sure learned this lesson the hard way. On that note, if anybody knows how to get info off of a hard drive that vibrates so hard on start up that it can't reach operational speed, please let me know! |
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The pictures stored on sites like Photobucket are not in the original resolution. If you ever need to print a nice copy, it will not look as good as if it came from the original file.
No. I've been chewed out for that before. To be fair, a hell of a lot of them are on photobucket and drop box so not in danger of being lost. But I do need to get in the habit of backing things up.None of the suggestions mentioned earlier are very difficult. Your issue with processes for example. You need to remove some. First you find out what each one is and whether or not you need it. As you Google each one, you can usually find the way to remove it or at least stop it from starting on boot-up. Backups!!!!! Have a plan on where you store everything. All of my important files are stored in the My Documents folder. I have added numerous sub-folders to better organize my information. I also have another folder for temporary data that is not backed up. Daily, I run MS Synch Toy to copy My Documents to a secondary hard drive in my PC. Weekly that drive is copied to network storage. I have optical off-site storage when my wife takes DVD's of data and locks them in her work file cabinet. I plan on putting an FTP server at a family member's house about 200 miles away so that I can have my off-site storage updated daily. If I lose everything in a fire, tornado or other natural disaster all of my important papers (including insurance) is safely stored in another state and easily accessible from any PC. |