Windows Easy Transfer is a tool for transferring files and settings from one system to another running Windows. Not only this, you can transfer data from one user’s profile, or from multiple user accounts. It helps you to decide what to move to your new computer, which transfer method to use, and finally perform the transfer. When you are done with transferring, it displays a reports of the transferred content. It also offers a list of programs that you might want to install on new computer.
Note: You cannot use this tool to move program files. It can transfer only data and program settings. You must then install your software programs on the new computer. Its also not capable to transfer any system files such as fonts and drivers. You can transfer files and settings using a network, USB drive or the Easy Transfer cable. You can order this cable on the Internet or contact computer manufacturer.
Upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7
You cannot upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7. However, you can use Windows Easy Transfer to transfer files and settings from Windows XP to Windows 7 on the same computer. For
this, you need to copy files to a removable media, such as an external hard drive or USB flash drive, or to a network share. Next, you will install Windows 7 and then migrate
your files back from the removable media onto your computer. When you are done, you must re-install your software programs again.
Copy files using Windows Easy Transfer on XP computer.
• Insert the Windows 7 DVD while running Windows XP.
• Open Windows Explorer by right-clicking the Start menu, and then clicking Explore.
• Browse to the DVD drive on your computer and click migsetup.exein the Support\Migwiz directory.
• The Windows Easy Transfer window opens.
• Click Next.
• Select An external hard disk or USB flash drive.
• Click This is my old computer. Windows Easy Transfer scans the computer.
• Click Next. You can also determine which files should be migrated by selecting only the user profiles you want to transfer, or by clicking Customize.
• Enter a password to protect your Easy Transfer file, or leave the box blank, and then click Save.
• Browse to the external location on the network or to the removable media where you want to save your Easy Transfer file, and then click Save.
• Click Next. Windows Easy Transfer displays the file name and location of the Easy Transfer file you just created.
Transfer files and settings on Windows 7 computer.
1. If you saved your files and settings in an Easy Transfer file on a removable media such as a USB flash drive or external hard drive rather than on a network share, insert
the removable media into the computer.
2. Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, click System Tools, and then click Windows Easy Transfer.
3. Click Next.
4. Click An external hard disk or USB flash drive.
5. Click This is my new computer.
6. Click Yes, open the file.
7. Browse to the location where the Easy Transfer file was saved. Click the file name, and then click Open.
8. Click Transfer to transfer all files and settings. You can also determine which files should be migrated by selecting only the user profiles you want to transfer, or by
clicking Customize.
9. Click Close after Windows Easy Transfer has completed moving your files.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Windows 7 features – Virtual Hard Disk
Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7, comes with a number of new features including relatively lesser known Virtual Hard Disk that enables a user to install various operating systems on a single machine.
The tool, which is a file formatted to be structurally identical to a physical Hard Disk Drive, enables you to test software on different operating systems and reduces the cost or hassle of actual hardware.
This feature which is included in latest Windows 7 allows a physical computer to mount and boot from an operating system contained within a VHD.
VHD’s ability to directly modify a virtual machine’s hard disk from a host server supports many applications, including:
* Life-cycle management and provisioning
* Backup and recovery
* Image management and patching
* Disk conversion (physical to virtual, and so on)
* Antivirus and security
* Moving files between a VHD and the host file system
In a nutshell, following are the advantages are provided by Windows 7 new feature VHDs:
Multiple operating system support : Now you can easily install multiple operating system without making changes in Master Boot Record.
Backup-and-Restore: Changes to the contents of a VHD (such as infection by a virus, or accidental deletion of critical files) are easily undone.
Multi-User Isolation: Many current operating systems support having multiple users, but offer varying degrees of protection between them (e.g., one user of the OS could become infected by a virus which infects other users, or make changes to the OS which affect other users). By giving each user their own version of the operating system — say, by creating for each of them a differencing VHD based on a base installation of the OS — changes to any particular child image would have no effect on any of the other child images.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Windows 7 boots slower than Vista?
According to PC-tuning company iolo Technologies, Windows 7 to boot times slower than its predecessor Vista, a strong contradiction to claims by Microsoft to begin to improve.
Iolo tests showed that Windows 7 loads up to 42 percent slower than Vista, while using a "new team". 7 charged in 1:34 compared with 1 minute flat for Vista.
This is where the numbers are confusing, however. Iolo home measures as the "point where the team is" fully usable "with a low load on the processor." Power button to desktop Windows 7 loads faster than Vista, but at the "full boot" no.
Perhaps most notably is the fact that like Vista boot times depends on how many applications have already been installed on your computer. After installing some "common use" applications, the boot time increased 64 percent to 2 minutes, says iolo.
The full report benchmarks the starting time is scheduled for release on Monday.
Iolo tests showed that Windows 7 loads up to 42 percent slower than Vista, while using a "new team". 7 charged in 1:34 compared with 1 minute flat for Vista.
This is where the numbers are confusing, however. Iolo home measures as the "point where the team is" fully usable "with a low load on the processor." Power button to desktop Windows 7 loads faster than Vista, but at the "full boot" no.
Perhaps most notably is the fact that like Vista boot times depends on how many applications have already been installed on your computer. After installing some "common use" applications, the boot time increased 64 percent to 2 minutes, says iolo.
The full report benchmarks the starting time is scheduled for release on Monday.
Monday, October 5, 2009
How to View Cache with ChromeCacheView
Like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and added browsers modify the Google Chrome likewise stores every the temporary table in a folder titled Cache. Generally Chrome’s Cache folder can be found in [User Profile]\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default.
Since you requirement to take into to individual folders to analyze every the table in the Cache folder, here is a takeout tool that displays Cache table with a click. With ChromeCacheView digit can analyze enter name, URL, material type, enter size, terminal accessed time, ending time, computer name, computer response, and more.
As this is a standalone utility, it doesn’t require some putting in place to effort started.
There are options to double designated store files to added directory, spend the designated files in ChromeCacheView. If you have installed Google Chrome browser, then this is an accessible tool for you.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Mozilla VP: Chrome Frame is not the right answer
Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft don’t ever wager eye to eye when it comes to application technology, but they concord generally on digit thing: thumbs downward for Google Chrome Frame.
Chrome Frame is a plug-in that puts Google’s application engine low the cowl of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and Google argues that it can renew IE versions 6, 7, and 8 with faster tender weight and JavaScript performance. It kicks in exclusive on Web pages that Web developers have tagged with a limited tag. After Google declared it, Microsoft criticized it as creating a potentially accumulated venture to feeding security.
Google Wave is digit locate that suggests IE users establish Google Chrome Frame.
Mike Shaver, evilness chair of field for Firefox sponsor Mozilla, publicised a assorted anxiety in a journal locate weekday night.
“I sure deal that desire for a Web in which the vast eld of Web users savor the action and capabilities we wager in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera. Unfortunately, I don’t conceive that Chrome Frame gets us fireman to that Web,” Shaver said.
Specifically, Shaver said Chrome Frame can alter IE features and confuse users’ discernment of Web section matters. And users of the abused IE 6 browser, he added, ofttimes won’t be healthy to separate Chrome Frame anyway because their machine is locked downward to veto changes or lacks decent control in the prototypal place.
“As a lateral effect, the user’s discernment of the Web’s section help and the activity of their application is earnestly hindered by deputation the pick of code to the developers of individualist sites they visit. It is a difficulty that we have seen repeatedly with another arrange plug-ins same Flash, Silverlight and Java, and not digit that I conceive we requirement to wager replayed again low the flag of HTML5,” he said.
Shaver’s advice is to rely on that ages-old technique: an raise suasion on the Web site.
“It would be meliorate for the Web if developers who desire to consume the Chrome Frame piece only told users that their locate worked meliorate in Chrome and taught them on how to establish it,” Shaver said. “The individual would be knowledgeable most the benefits of an move browser, would see meliorate the pick they were making, and the kudos for Chrome’s action would fall to Google kind of than to Microsoft.”
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Google Chrome Frame boosts IE pace up to Chrome levels
So, meet how such of an action process do you intend in Internet Explorer when you establish and attain consume of Chrome Frame?
Quite a lot, as it turns out!
Note: All tests carried discover on Windows Vista 64-bit.
I definite to verify Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 and wager what assorted Chrome Frame prefabricated when streaming the SunSpider JavaScript criterion test. For comparability I also ran the effort in Google Chrome 3 browser.
• IE7 using Chrome Frame is most 40 nowadays faster at streaming finished the SunSpider JavaScript criterion effort than IE7 alone.
• IE8 using Google Chrome Frame is most 10 nowadays faster at streaming finished the SunSpider JavaScript criterion effort than IE8 alone.
• Using Chrome Frame, IE7 and IE8 are nearly as alacritous as Google Chrome itself at processing JavaScript.
Good stuff indeed.
As to inventiveness practice patch streaming Chrome Frame, I didn’t wager some perceptible process in mainframe or RAM usage. In fact, correct today I can’t wager some downside to Chrome Frame.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Chrome Addon: AdSweep a Chrome ad blocker
AdSweep is a diminutive addon that aims to conceal business from the web pages you visit. In theoretical terms, AdSweep is a individual JavaScript that defines CSS rules supported on the web locate you are temporary to conceal elements of the tender that exhibit advertisements.
It is a impact in advancement and a diminutive sort of web sites have been additional to the itemize of filtered web sites, more and more web sites are additional over time, and if you have base CSS skills, you can verify conception and support attain the web a preparation place.
Installation
• If you desire to establish AdSweep in Chrome, create the C:\\scripts directory, select AdSweep.zip and locate the AdSweep.user.js enter into C:\\scripts then right-click the road picture of Google Chrome, either on your screen or in your Start menu, and utter “Properties”. Select the ordinal journalism titled “Shortcut”, and in the “Target” field, attach --enable-greasemonkey with a expanse inbetween. For instance:
Before: C:\\Users\\Charles\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe
After: C:\\Users\\Charles\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe --enable-greasemonkey
• Don’t block the expanse in between. Click “OK” to spend changes.
When you’re done, near your browser, reopen it and admittance www.adsweep.org, you should wager a flushed asking in the upper-right crossway of the tender (only displayed on www.adsweep.org), locution AdSweep is installed.
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