The only real solution is to reinstall. At best these migration programs are 80% then there are the issues where the program don’t quite work right that you discover weeks later.

 

Clients offer the migration packages that were bought with their new PCs. And even though I explain that they are not perfect some clients still insist I use the software. In every case so far the cost for me to migrate then install those that did not pull over and finally to chase the weird problems  that came up later exceed the cost of installing everything fresh. I’m to the point where I’m just going to say “NO”.

 

Tom

 

From: Loren Busch [mailto:starwagen@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 12:47 AM
To: Tom Hargrave
Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
Subject: Re: NVC Late Friday post Question on Migrating to New PC

 

Thanks for the response Tom.  But my problem is not upgrading a computer OS but migrating my programs to a NEW computer.  Old computer running XP, new computer running Win 7.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Tom Hargrave <thargrav@hiwaay.net> wrote:

I've upgraded more than several - it's one of the things I do for a living.

The cleanest way to do this is to install Windows 7 fresh then re-install everything.