Laplink PC Mover Moving Kit

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Product Details

Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Avanquest
EAN: 0018059037700
Format: CD-ROMLabel: Avanquest
Dimension: 1.3 x 7.4 x 5.2 inches
Manufacturer: Avanquest
Model: 3771
Publisher: Avanquest
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Studio: Avanquest

Features and Descriptions

• Complete Migration: Transfer everything you want--all your programs, files, and settings--in one easy move
• Multiple Transfer Options: Choose from USB cables, Windows Easy Transfer cable, parallel cables, removable media or a wired/wireless network to do the transfer
• Application Selectivity: Choose which applications you'd like moved over to your new PC
• Folder & File Selectivity: Select which folders and file types you don't want to transferred to your new PC
• Easy-To-Use Wizard Interface: Click through a simple wizard to set up the move.

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Ratings & Comments (Average:)

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- Most Dangerous Software Ever!
Do NOT buy this product (Laplink PC Mover Moving Kit). I tried to move my settings from a Windows 98SE machine to a brand-new Windows XP machine, and it absolutely trashed the new machine. I had to erase and reformat the hard disk and reinstall the operating system with product disks from the manufacturer to get it to work at all. The only possible safe use of this product (and even then I would recommend it only to professionals) is to move settings from one machine to an IDENTICAL machine -- same manufacturer, same model, same operating system.

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- YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
I realize that my review is not about this product, but I think it is relevant to potential purchasers of Avanquest products. I do not know anything about this particular program, but have had considerable difficulty with Avanquest as detailed below.

I purchased My Ultimate Organizer 7.0 via download and subsequent key.

I am not making this up - the product displayed a message in Serbo-Croatian telling me the key had expired.

Four hours later with Technical Support and the problem is still not resolved (despite erasing the program, reinstalling, trying different keys, searching the Windows Registry, etc). It takes a full hour on hold to get a technical support representative and at the conclusion of the last session, I was told to contact Customer Service for a CD copy in the hopes that that would resolve the issue. Now Customer Service tells me Technical Support must send me the copy, although Technical Support says otherwise. I am out $30 for a program that is at this point, totally useless, and left adrift by Avanquest who has my money and refuses to help me.

I would purchase Avanquest products with extreme caution. If you have a Technical Support issue, you will have to wait a minimum of 60 minutes on hold (no 800 number), and then get fairly substandard service after that.

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- Best product for the job
Forty-four applications on the old desktop. Six logical drives. Tons of serial numbers. Backed up the old machine using Acronis True Image. Built the new machine with matching drives (new ones were larger) using Acronis Disk Director. Migrated from XP Pro to XP Home (Dell doesn't offer XP Pro on new machines today). Swapped from FAT32 to NTDS. This is a one-way street, by the way.
Followed the directions carefully. Said a couple Hail Marys and hit Start.
The system shortly announced this would take hours and hours...and it did. Took my bride out to an evening dinner party. Arrived home at 11 PM to find that the process was complete.
Spent another day checking each application on the new machine for proper execution. One didn't make it. Two small apps never appeared. Fixed those and reloaded the larger one (Adobe Photoshop Elements). Serial numbers were never a problem.
Laplink has been in the business a long time and has created a fine product here.

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- Move Successful
PC Mover performed as advertised. The setup was straightforward and my programs, data, and configurations were smoothly transferred to my new laptop, making the transition painless.

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- easy to use
This product was easy to use and it did exactly what it says it does. It only involved minor tweeking on our part. Nothing major, and we are not very computer savy. I think the problem was actually with our new computer though.

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