Transferring to new computer?

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Apologies if this is a much asked question - I've searched.

Just about to take delivery of new super dooper desktop with XP pro already
installed.
I will immediately network to my oldish, also XP Pro machine, and of course
would love to simply copy all the junk on my boot drive without reinstalling
loads and loads of software, finding the keys and passwords (all legit) and
upgrading updates and indeed updates to updates! When I only had a 12gb boot
drive before and now will have much more than 160gb available, transferring
a bit of redundancy, (tho' I know not ideal), would be worth the days of
headaches and thumb twiddling.

Any suggestions or shortcuts?

cheers

 

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Run Files and Settings Wizard to capture as high a percentage of
setup/user data as possible. The majority of 3rd party apps aren't
covered, so some re-installation will be required.
Of course there is another option which is image your existing XP
instance and clone it to the new computer. However, this would
cause you some headaches with drivers and apps that are supplied
with the new machine's image.
No real easy way to do a 100% migration from one machine to
another without some planning and maybe a half-day of touch up
work on it.

"Peter G" <peter@ducknospam.com> wrote in message
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> Apologies if this is a much asked question - I've searched.
>
> Just about to take delivery of new super dooper desktop with XP pro
> already installed.
> I will immediately network to my oldish, also XP Pro machine, and of
> course would love to simply copy all the junk on my boot drive without
> reinstalling loads and loads of software, finding the keys and passwords
> (all legit) and upgrading updates and indeed updates to updates! When I
> only had a 12gb boot drive before and now will have much more than 160gb
> available, transferring a bit of redundancy, (tho' I know not ideal),
> would be worth the days of headaches and thumb twiddling.
>
> Any suggestions or shortcuts?
>
> cheers
>