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| ==== Copying Your Old Stuff ==== | ==== Copying Your Old Stuff ==== | ||
| - | When you first started your new computer, you created a user account. Now create user accounts for everyone who will use the new computer. Log in as that user. This will create the Users directory with the right folders for each user. Now attach the USB device with the files from the old computer. As the Administrator or the first user created, copy the files carefully from the USB device to the appropriate folders in C:\Users\ on the new computer. You can copy them by the folder and set more than one copy job at a time. Do not be surprised if it runs much quicker than it did copying to the USB drive. | + | When you first started your new computer, you created a user account. Now create user accounts for everyone who will use the new computer. Log in as that user. This will create the Users directory with the right folders for each user. Now attach the USB device with the files from the old computer. As the Administrator or the first user created, copy the files carefully from the USB device to the appropriate folders in C:\Users\ on the new computer. You can copy them by the folder and set more than one copy job at a time. Do not be surprised if it runs much quicker than it did copying to the USB drive.\\ |
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| + | **Are you more advanced? | ||
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| + | For about $20.00 you can buy a hard drive external case. This will allow you to take the hard drive out of your old computer and attach it to your new computer via USB. You can then copy everything over. As a bonus, once you have everything copied over, you can delete the Windows and Program Files directories and have a nice fat USB drive to backup to.\\ | ||
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| + | === The Bad News === | ||
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| + | You cannot use this method to install your old programs on the new computer. You need to run the installer for each program to install them. Sorry.\\ | ||
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| ==== I Don't Have a CD Drive, How do I Load Software? ==== | ==== I Don't Have a CD Drive, How do I Load Software? ==== | ||
