Windows Easy Transfer - Discussion

Please leave any feedback about the Windows Easy Transfer article in this thread.

Thanks Ian - Great walk through by the way - Easy to follow

There's only one problem. When backing up your "old" computer, you are able to back up to a CD. But when it's time to restore, no CD option exists.

There's another problem, it doesn't transfer everything as described. For instance, my bookmarks from IE was there, but the rest of my programs weren't, I had to redownload them. But when I reinstalled Firefox, all of my bookmarks and settings were there as they were before the transfer. If it can do that, why didn't it bring all of my programs back? I carefully followed the instructions, created a password, transferred my Windows 7 install onto a external drive, after repartitioning my drive, I used the same password to transfer them back, after a few minutes, it said it was complete. What did I do wrong? Or was I expecting too much of the program? I was looking for everything to be the same as before the repartition.

Useful and good

I realize this is an old thread but since a new member dug it up I will add some additional information ...

WETs purpose is strictly to transfer personal data including user settings; it does not transfer programs. It is also a good idea to use the customize ... advanced options to verify it found all your data and that it isn't bringing extra information you do not want transferred..

Another important point is that WET can NOT be used to transfer from a 64-bit OS to a 32-bit OS, however 32 to 32, 64 to 64, and 32 to 64 are supported.