Specifications

Page 10 Blue Chips Magazine —December 2010
Before We Start
A little upgrade background
info is in order here. Here’s what
“they’re”saying out
on the street. Win-
dows 7 (Win7) is
touted as a stable
mature product,
so there’s no rea-
son why not to
start migrating
away from XP into
Win7, that is, unless software (which I
have an abundance of) is not supported
(ditto) or is not compatible with Win7
(which we’ll denitely see rst-hand for
ourselves, now) at all. Or, and here’s the
real winner of the deal, with some ca-
veats, of course, you can run XP side by
side with Win7 using XP Vware, which
Microsoft will provide for free, and your
XP programs will run virtually from your
Win7 desktop, meaning, there’s no need
to start up a second VW program to run
that valuable XP Stuff.
Hoorah! Well, what are we
waiting for?
Sadly, in my case, it’s HIAWC
time, again
4
.
All I Want Are The Facts,
Ma’am
Well, it’s about
time
5
, Don. “Hap-
py New Year, Time
marches on, you
know?”
Yes, but I need
a great deal of help
migrating all my
XP les over onto
the new Win7 ma-
chine! OK?
Here’s what
the kind and
patient Laplink
PR person sent
to me to allevi-
ate my concerns
about this ma-
jor, major up-
grade move for
me:
“We at Laplink are proud of our
software and stand behind them 100%....
PCmover is the #1 best-selling migra-
tion solution in the world and it makes
setting up a new PC easier than ever.
PCmover will automatically transfer
all or selected programs, les and set-
tings from an old PC to a new one. With
PCmover, there is no need to nd old
CDs or serial numbers, because all of
the programs are automatically installed
and ready to use on the new PC.”OK!
PCmover can do the following
transfers:
1. Transfer programs, les and set-
tings from one PC to another
2. Upgrade an existing PC to Win-
dows 7
3. The easy-
to-use wizard will
guide you in se-
lecting which pro-
grams, files and
settings you want
on your PC. When
complete, your
new computer will
have the personal-
ity and functional-
ity of your old PC.
And, PCmover is safe – it removes
nothing from your old PC, won’t over-
write anything on your new PC, and
includes an easy “Undo” feature.
4. Restore old Windows images (or
hard drive contents) to a new PC without
overwriting the new OS.
a. PCmover is the only software
that moves programs, les and settings
from your old PC to your new PC – even
restore from an image (or old hard drive)
or perform an in-place upgrade. Other
disk imaging software will overwrite
a new operating system with the old
when restoring old images to a new PC
(See graphic on next page & CBC2
graphic on pages 15-19).
b. The functionalities of restoring
old Windows images (or hard drive
contents) to a new PC without overwrit-
ing the new OS are part of our software
entitled PCmover Image Assistant.
These functionalities are designed to be
used for the following scenarios:
1) Your computer crashes, but the
hard drive still functions. Use PCmover
Image Assistant to restore all or some
of the programs, les and settings from
that hard drive to a new PC even if the
new PC is running a different version
of Windows. For example, the old PC
might have been running XP and the
new PC has Windows 7. Nothing on the
new PC will be overwritten. And, all your
applications are transferred and ready-
to-use. No need to reinstall and no
need to nd old serial numbers.
The old hard drive must be accessible
on the new PC and PCmover Image
Assistant does the rest.
2) You have a PC running an older
version of Windows that is stolen or
fatally damaged (e.g., won’t boot and
can’t be repaired). Most likely, you will
buy a new PC that is running Windows
7. Then, if you have used imaging soft-
ware to maintain an image of the old
PC, mount the image as a virtual drive
and use PCmover Image Assistant to
restore it to the new PC, even if the new
PC is running a different operating sys-