[access-uk] Re: reinstalling XP. How much hell will it cause me?
- From: "G. McFarlane" <gmcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:17:48 +0100
Hi Damon
The following suggestion might be of some help to you. If you aren't going to
reload everything there's a fairly new program from Laplink called PCMover
which transfers all settings, programs, registry, etc. onto a new machine, thus
making unnecessary the reloading of most things requiring serial numbers, etc.
You must put on the operating system then after purchasing a licence and the
program from Laplink you load it onto both machines and transfer. If you decide
to use the same machine then this will work too - you can first make a backup
over DVDs etc, or onto a networked machine, or better still onto an external
hard drive. You then reformat your machine and restore things from the external
drive, etc. At either the backup stage or restor stage you can choose which
programs and setting you wish to reload.
I found that I had the same problems when I did this, but when I was given the
choice of having the same startup sequences and used them, this caused the
problem. When I chose to ditch the startups for the old machine all the
programs worked perfectly. Only one or two programs need reloading or
re-activating, eg. Jaws, Itunes, etc. but it saved me a week of work. It
transferred everything in about 3 hours and worked.
SLaplink allow downloads of PCMove for £30 - for this you get one licence for
moving between 2 machines. Serif are offering a licence at the moment for £10 -
it seems to be the same version and does the same thing. (this price also
includes a 4 port usb hub.)
Hope this helps.
Gordon McFarlane
----- Original Message -----
From: Damon
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 6:23 AM
Subject: [access-uk] reinstalling XP. How much hell will it cause me?
Hi all.
Am so sick of my PC that I think I am going to try reinstalling XP on it.
My main anxiety is the software that I've installed on the computer these
last 5 years since I last reinstalled it.
As my memory is awful, I can't remember what happened to the software I had
installed at that time.
Does an XP reinstall overwrite everything on my hard disks? Does it also do a
disk reformatting as part of the process?
If not, does the software somehow uninstall itself?
I seem to remember that the software remained on the machine but I had to
find other ways of linking to it? rebuild my start menu or something like that?
I am not looking forward to the idea of finding all the software I have
installed. And there are certain bits of software I have bought that I have no
idea how to reclaim and may have to pay for all over again. Details are lost on
the wind somewhere.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Am also wondering whether it might just be a good idea to buy a Vista upgrade
right now and install that instead in the hoeps it will fix all my problems and
give me a far more stable system.
Appreciated.
...Damon
damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
skype: damonrose
London, England.
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