Files and Settings Transfer Wizard

[Tom Penharston]

In the past when I used The XP Files and Settings Transfer Wizard to
transfer Windows 98 accounts I was content to watch the Wizard run for
an hour or more. After all, the 98 operating system was slow and I was
dealing with some of the first Pentiums ever made. I didn't care how
long the process ran, as long as the data carried over.

Now time has gone by and I'm migrating accounts from Windows 2000 to
XP. Today I'm even migrating from one XP computer to XP computer. The
Wizard is so time consuming that I'm eager to get back to manual
migrations. I can copy documents and migrate mail into PST files in a
mere fraction of the time that the wizard takes.

Settings can be migrated quickly with the wizard, but data should be
done manually, is this true?

What's an appropriate amount of time for a single client migration?

 

[John Tiesi]

One of the things I've noticed running the wizard is when I have My
Documents redirected to a network drive, it will take a long time to sort
the data and compress it. What I've done is cancelled the wizard,
redirected My Documents back to the local drive, then re-ran the wizard.

Another thing, if your "source" is a network drive, expect long delays as
you will have to deal with normal network traffic plus the amount of data
that you are trying to move to the new machine.