- #ZINSTALL VS PCMOVER INSTALL#
- #ZINSTALL VS PCMOVER WINDOWS 10#
- #ZINSTALL VS PCMOVER SOFTWARE#
- #ZINSTALL VS PCMOVER PC#
In all, PCmover works just as it should, and certainly shows up the limitations of the free Windows Easy Transfer tool.
#ZINSTALL VS PCMOVER PC#
If for any reason your transfer doesn’t go the way you want, you can roll your new PC back to its original state. Still, all of our files and programs ended up in their proper places, and we were impressed to see that even bespoke Visual Studio applications worked perfectly on the new PC. Your best bet is either a Gigabit LAN (if you have one) or the Laplink USB cable, either of which should in theory work out around twice as fast as an external drive. With a USB2 external hard disk, we found it took around four hours to move 30GB of data, and over 100Mbits/sec Ethernet the same load took more than a day of solid copying. The actual copying remains a slow process, though, and it’s slowed down further by PCmover’s insistence on compressing everything.
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It also allows the software to warn you of potential application clashes or incompatibilities. Alternatively, if both PCs are attached to a network the software can transfer your data that way.īefore copying, PCmover briefly scans both source and destination PCs, identifying which files don’t need to be moved – a sensible time-saving measure. If not, the effort will have to come out of my own pocket, and my projects will be delayed.The boxed edition comes with a special double-ended USB cable for connecting your old and new PCs directly together, but if you’ve opted for the cheaper download edition you can simply use an external hard disk to ferry your files across. hours which I can work, and bill for my time. If one of these programs works as advertised, it will save me many hours of effort.
How many applications? If you count the various utilities that I want to have on hand, there are 55 applications to be transferred. interestingly, few of them are 'paid for and licensed' most are provided by companies whose parts I specify, for free. Most of the applications are engineering ones, specific to my kind of work. which is why I want to investigate programs like the ones I quoted in the OP and title of the thread. but I use a large number of applications in my work, some of which are very slow to install. If it were not for the applications, transferring my data files would be a trivial exercise. the machine which is the source, runs Windows 8.1.
#ZINSTALL VS PCMOVER WINDOWS 10#
The new machine will have a fresh Windows 10 install.
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and want to copy my applications to the new machine without having to individually install them, which, for me, could take several days.
I'm setting up a new machine, but NOT planning to make any changes to the old machine. which sort of explains why he missed the entire point. Old Dryfoot said that he had not read the thread, but didn't need to.
The op poses a complex and incomplete question.Īre you moving to a new OS or just to a new box running the same OS.I thought I had explained the issue clearly in the OP, but perhaps not.
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