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Computers
& Technology
Links to Computers & Tech On-Line
. Migration
Software Info & Reviews
Links to Info
& Tools That Can Save You Hours with
Your
New PC  As
we mentioned in this month's Computer
Tutor: Migrating to a New PC, if you got a new PC for the holidays, then you
may want to consider some migration software to help you move your old stuff to
your new machine with as few headaches and as little time lost as possible.
In
that light, this month's Links to Computers & Tech On-Line is providing
links to Migration Software Info & Reviews. ... We
covered the basics -- which software to look at, pricing info, and the various
kinds and levels of functionality -- in this month's Computer
Tutor. ... Here, we'll point you to some of the best of what we
found for reviews of this type of software from a variety of sources. Finally,
while our focus in Computer Tutor was on individual
home users, both a number of these software titles and the articles and reviews
we've included are aimed at business or even corporate users. The
rationale for including the latter is that those business and corporate IT folks
are the ones whose jobs depend upon high quality tools, so you're likely to find
a wider selection of tools than if you stuck to the home user-oriented reviews
only, as well as more depth and a higher standard. Just keep in mind that,
if you are a home user, you'll have to filter the IT-oriented stuff for your own
goals. So, for example, if the main selling point of a particular brand of
software for some IT reviewer is its speed, that may not matter much to you,
since you don't have 100, much less 1000 PC's to migrate. Enough
said. ... If you want to learn more about migration software, then
check out the following reviews and articles. And if you want the info
from the proverbial horses' mouths, we've also included the links we provided
directly to the software makers' web sites in this month's Computer
Tutor again at the bottom of the list.
Mass
migration - Software Reviews - CNET.com
CNet does it usual
comprehensive job on Aloha Bob's PC-Relocator 2.6, PCsync 2.0, pc2pc, and
Personality Tranxport Pro. Aloha Bob took their best of breed
recommendation. But you'll want to read the article to find out
why. They also have a quick table called Migration
by the Numbers to help ID which software offers which features.
Definitely worth the read. ... We're also including direct links
to CNet's Full Reviews for each title, which are not part of the article per
se, and therefore there's no ready way to get from the article to them and
back. ...
Review
Desktop personality migration software, NetWorkWorld Fusion
Obviously,
given the source, the slant on this one is from the IT/network
world. NetWorkWorld gives their top honor to Altiris PC
Transplant Pro, which, according to them, surpassed tested Miramar Systems
Desktop DNA 2.5, PowerQuest Migration Manager 2.1, Symantec Ghost 7.0 and
Tranxition Personality Tranxport Professional (PT Pro) 2.1. But,
as they note, "While some of these products offered additional
functionality, [they] limited [their] tests to the personality transfer
arena." In other words, in getting the specialized tweaks and
settings over, rather than whole applications.
. ZDNet
Australia News & Tech Enterprise OS upgrades: Migrating on the curve
Obviously
another article with an IT bent, we include it here because, while it leans
even more heavily toward concerns that only an IT manager would care about,
it's the only one that talked about the downside of migration. ...
.
That was the only reason. But it
seemed like enough. ...
. PCWorld.com
- Clone One PC's Settings to Another
SmartClone
- Software Reviews - CNET.com
If you read the piece from PCWorld
side-by-side with the CNet Review, you'd think you were reading about two
completely different software titles, but you'd be wrong. The PCWorld
piece -- which focuses primarily on SmartClone and gives only passing
reference to Aloha Bob, Upgrade Commander, PC Sync, and IntelliMover 3.0,
and the pc2pc migration service -- extols the virtues of SmartClone, which
it says "makes easy work of migrating everything." ...
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On the other hand, CNet, while
acknowledging its easy of use, notes that it will move only settings, not
software, and calls SmartClone migration "slow and sloppy," not to
mention the fact that it "can cost a fortune."
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Just
goes to show you something you probably already suspected. And, while
here we are in print, we'll repeat the immortal words of Marvin Gaye
anyway: " ... believe half of what you see, not a line of what
you hear."
. TechTV
Inside Windows XP Files and Settings Transfer
 One
of the much-touted virtues of Windows XP is it's supposed ability to help
you migrate to it painlessly. {Why they don't advertise that instead
of the ability to send pictures via e-mail -- which lots of us have been
doing for years already -- is beyond me.} But TechTV takes the issue
head-on with a solid and detailed overview of what this particular snippet
of XP will and won't do. ... Lots of screenshots, too, for those
who like their info visually enhanced.
. Links to
the Companies' Software Pages ...
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About Links to Computers & Tech On-Line
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search can attest to. To put it all in context, best estimates say that
only a fraction -- maybe 20 - 40 % of what's out there -- is actually making its
way to the search engines. Well, here at DownStreet,
we'd like to try to help. So each issue, we post a few links in Computers
& Tech to sites that might interest you. Sometimes the links will be
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