data migration

I am running Vista Home Premium 64 Bit and Windows 7 64 Bit. I am duls booting. I went to import Bookmarks(Favorites into Win 7 from Vista. When I browse for the file and find my Vista Favorites while in Win 7.I click on it and get file has to be htm. Favorites in Vista are just Favorites no...

I'm an IT Consultant who manages networks for small businesses. I just ordered a new laptop with Windows 7 Professional to replace my XP machine. The XP laptop works fine but I want to be familiar with Windows 7 when my customers want to upgrade. I use Microsoft Fax on my laptop for sending...

I recently installed Windows 7, I copied my GC bookmarks and such onto the windows 7 side, but where do I put them. It may be in users, local settings, like on XP, but there is nothing like that in my user folder. Maybe it's hidden?

I can't export my windows 7 contacts. There is no export on the tool bar or drop down for new contact with export on it. I upgraded from Vista Home Prem. to Windows 7 Home Prem.? What can I use to get my contacts exported to Thunderbird? Thanks for any help!

I intend to use the Win 7 East File Transfer when I upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Win 7 pro. I intend to use the clean install method. If I add a second physical internal hard drive, can I use that instead of a physical external drive? All documentation always refer to an external drive. I...

Hello, I've been moving my docs, my pics, etc changing the location to another drive.... but is there a way to set it to use another drive and not have to move 1 by 1 all the folders? This way it's much easier to do a clean install destroying drive C each time I have a problem and have all my...

I'm using build 7100 7 ultimate and will be downgrading to 7 Pro. Will I be able to just backup my entire system to an external hard drive, do a clean install of the 7 pro and then restore my files and programs to the new OS?

Hi. I am planning on upgrading from XP to Windows 7. Right now, I have 2 hard drives on my computer (C: and F:). All of my files are on the C: hard drive (300GB) and F: (1TB) is empty. When I install Windows 7, I'm planning on installing it to F: , and later copying files over from C: instead...

I am getting Windows 7 home premium and a new Intel X-25m 80gb SSD. My questions are,(i am using vista home premium 32bit now) i think i can buy an upgrade version and still do a fresh install on a new drive with it correct? I want to do a "custom" 64 bit install on a new SSD but I have vista on...

I just went through the export from Windows XP using the Windows 7 easy transfer program. After scanning the XP system it displays the components and allows you to accept or decline the transfer. I don't see email anywhere on the lists. Email is the primary thing I want to transfer. I use...

I have posted this question in two different CNET forums - "E-mail, chat, & VoIP" and "Windows 7" - but have received no response to either. Thought I might have more success here. I am currently using Windows Mail on Vista Home Premium. I've seen numerous reports that Windows Mail will not be...

Hello: I had fist installed Win 7 in a separate partition so that I could dual boot between XP and Windows 7 until I was confortable that Win 7 was for me. I'm now happy with Win 7. XP is now on partion D:\ and Win 7 is on partion C:\. I just took an image of drive C:\ onto an external DVD...

Currently running Win XP using Outlook Express, will install Windows 7 on new partition, how do I move all my personal folders from OE to Windows Live mail ??

You had good reason to stick with XP and skip the Vista experience entirely. But now that the folks at Microsoft have created a new operating system that's worth moving to, they haven't made the upgrade easy, because you have to perform a clean install of the OS. Here are the issues you need to...

Ok long story. I have 2 hard drives. HArd drive #1 has windows 7 RC1 installed, and #2 is storage. I got a copy of windows 7 pro and decided to install that and move over since RC1 will eventually vanish. I installed everything new and moved over music and everything to the #2 hard drive...

I installed Win7 on my computer by installing on a 'new' hard drive, after removing the drive that housed XP. Is there a simple way to transer certain program files and settings to W7 without buying a specialty program? I didn't know about the "Windows Easy Transfer" before I installed W7, so...

My new PC is 64 bit my older ones have been 32 bit. I had one program I really wanted that I couldn't install. I suspected just a 16 bit installer but the maker of software no longer in business. Tonight it finally dawned on me to try Easy transfer and it worked! Homer Simpson finally figured...

Hey guys im running a completley fine version of Vista 64 but i want to upgrade to Windows 7 64 since i tried it out on my laptop and i preferred it to Vista. Anyway I have 1 Hard Drive split into 2 partitions, one been 70gb - 10gb free space (Windows Vista) and the other is 300gb - 60gb free...

Can anyone help....? I have tried moving the default locations of the Vista special folders now a few times by using the move location route. All seems to go well until at some point, something goes wrong or I do something wrong and I find a whole host of files being copied over when I know...

trying to copy a wmv file from a cd rom to my hard drive in windows 7 and seeing that stupid "calculating:mad:" message that goes for 200 years with no actual copying being done. What is this and how do i fix it? I used to see this crap in vista too.