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Data-program transfer from old to new laptop Mahlon Wagner 01-14-2008
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Posted by Mahlon Wagner on January 14, 2008, 9:05 am
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What kinds of software/hardware are needed for a transfer?
Old laptop is Thinkpad X40Win XP Pro, and new is Thinkpad T61 Vista
Home premium.

I would like it if the programs would also be transferred.
Thanks
Mahl

Posted by Gerard Bok on January 14, 2008, 10:20 am
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:05:47 -0500, Mahlon Wagner

>What kinds of software/hardware are needed for a transfer?
>Old laptop is Thinkpad X40Win XP Pro, and new is Thinkpad T61 Vista
>Home premium.
>
>I would like it if the programs would also be transferred.

If they both have an ethernet connection, that would be the
easiest way.
With (some version of) Windows present on both laptop, the only
thing required would be either a cross cable or 2 normal cables
plus a hub / switch / router (allmost any device with at least 2
ethernet ports will do :-)

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Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

Posted by BillW50 on January 14, 2008, 11:30 am
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Gerard Bok typed on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:20:42 GMT:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:05:47 -0500, Mahlon Wagner
>
>> What kinds of software/hardware are needed for a transfer?
>> Old laptop is Thinkpad X40Win XP Pro, and new is Thinkpad T61 Vista
>> Home premium.
>>
>> I would like it if the programs would also be transferred.
>
> If they both have an ethernet connection, that would be the
> easiest way.
> With (some version of) Windows present on both laptop, the only
> thing required would be either a cross cable or 2 normal cables
> plus a hub / switch / router (allmost any device with at least 2
> ethernet ports will do :-)

That method won't transfer the programs (applications) though. Also
Mahlon might need third party drivers from the old and move them to the
new. If this is the case, they will need something like:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/drvback/

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Bill
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