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say in Thailand, we’ll just call
TS tomorrow and get all this
straightened out nice and easy.
Amazingly, when I clicked the Er-
ror Message off, the whole thing
started running like a champ.
“Hot damn, ya’ll I swear!” “This
time, we made it, didn’t we girl?”
“The music is pounding in my
ears, will success spoil Rock
Hunter?” All sorts of hilarious,
gleeful, happy thoughts were y-
ing around in my brain. But wait!
Houston, I’ve just realized I’ve
got a problem.
Now all I have to
do is do is an “In-
Place Upgrade to
Windows 7 Op-
tion”
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using the
PCmover Win-
dows 7 Upgrade
Assistant on the
Vista and every-
thing will be hinky
dory. Or, how
about being expressed in a more
current colonialism, “Cool!”?
Hold on. Please re-read this para-
graph again, folks. I’m not fin-
ished with this migration by a
long shot, no siree Bob! PCmover
made the migration to the Vista,
but it’s not to Win7, yet. OMG!
You know, I may be dumb, but
I’m not stupid,
or maybe it’s vice
versa , I’m not
sure which, but
the User’s Guide,
which I was fol-
lowing religious-
ly, not once ever
said when I was
supposed to put
in the Windows
7 P r o f e s s i o n -
al Installation
Disk, not once.
OK! “Back to the
drawing board
time, for Big Don,
it is,” says Yoda. Yes, it is!
I talked to my Laplink PR
friend that nal day of availability
of TS about this “diffugalty,” as my
dad was fond of saying. He sent me
an e-mail, at my request, explain-
ing what had just transpired in the
previous episode:
e-mail. “You should be able to upgrade
to Windows 7 from Vista natively. Place
the [Windows 7] Install disk into the
Vista PC and run the install wizard.
You should have the option to choose
“Upgrade” from the wizard.
“[Note.] See this page on the
Microsoft site: (http://windows.mi-
crosoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/
upgrading-from-windows-vista-to-
windows-7).
“If that does not work, let me know
and we can look into using PCmover
Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant to
handle the upgrade, but you should be
able to do it from the Windows 7 disk.
[OK!]
“As far as what I mentioned about
PCmover: The important thing to un-
derstand about PCmover is that it will
help you move all of your programs, les
and settings from one PC to another. No
matter if you are moving from XP-XP,
XP-Vista, XP-Win7 and so on, it will
do it.”
OK then! We’ll finish up on
that one on my own time, but,
certainly not now, we’ve got a
deadline to meet!
BTW Let me rst say that “The
‘XP Stuff’ that’s now working on
the Vista Desktop is simply amaz-
ing, amazing! ”
1. The Belkin 4x4 Peripheral Switch
now works, yes, works like clockwork,
absolutely perfectly on three (3)
different machines, two (2) of which,
are Vista machines (the desktop and
a laptop, but remember, the laptop
is completely controlled from the
XP), plus the original XP, which has
always worked perfectly. And best
of all I didn’t have to install their,
i.e., Belkin’s, defective, non-working
download software fix (or use the de-
fective, non-working install CD that
came with the original carton, nor
wait any longer for the imaginary tier
3 TS to call from India) either. It just
up and worked, And, IT WORKS
ON ALL 3! Go figure?
HIAWC. You know, I’ve been
shuttling stuff back and forth
between those 3 PC’s like gang
busters using assorted different
USB’s, even printing from all
three machines simply by drag-
ging and dropping the printer
icon/image from one PC to the
other on the Belkin Periph-
eral Switches control box. FYI
THAT’S ONE (1) PRINTER AND
THREE (3) DIFFERENT MA-
CHINES. Hoorah!
2. OMG Shockingly, my be-
loved Comic Book Creator 2
migrated over to the Vista Pro
perfectly, too. All I had to do
was type in the XP, repeat, the
XP CBC2 License Key, and IT
WORKED PERFECTLY! That
could be called piracy, except
that I have permission to use it
that way because of my Review-
ing it in the BCM, so there! ;-p
3. Diskeeper 2010, Aha! IT,
TOO, WORKED PERFECTLY! No
new license key required there
either. FYI Same story with the
extra licenses here, as well - I’ve
only Reviewed 14 of their great
products to date, you know?
4. Vipre, IT, TOO, STARTED
WORKING PERFECTLY, ALL ON
ITS VERY OWN. I DIDN’T HAVE
TO DO A SINGLE THING! Ditto!
5. GhostSurf, Yep, IT TOO!
6. There’s lots of other great
stuff tha t migra t e d perf e ct-
ly; and some not, exactly like
Laplink states, plus makes you
acknowledge beforehand you
know about, but then you get the
idea. It’s amazing Gracie. “Say
goodnight Gracie!”
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