New Clean system - transferring prefs

[Freddie Clark]

Here are the bits I have

Lian-Li PC60 case
P4P800 deluxe
P4 2.8 Prescott CPU
Antec TruePower 550P
1Gb Corsair TwinX 3200LL-Pro (2X512 dual channel)
2 X Maxtor 80Gb SATA HDD
2 X Maxtor 120Gb IDE HDD
Asus 402P DVD Burner
Lite-On 5232K CD-RW/DVD Dive
Sapphire 9800Pro Atlantis Radeon
SB Audigy LS

The case is currently housing my old system;

CUSL2C Mobo
512 Corsair Ram
3 X IDE HDD (40/30/20)
2 X SCSI Drives (18-Boot/5)
SCSI CD/RW
Adaptec 29160N controller
Turtle beach Sound card

I plan to move the current hardware into a Lian-Li 6077 case, and use the
server case for the new stuff. It will be a clean install of Win XP Pro. (
Thanks ABXzone for the excellent setup tutorial)
So everything will go smooth and I will have a new mega machine. However I
am a little unsure of things like Favourites, address book, cookies,
passwords etc that are in my old system. I will want to transfer as much of
this to the new without screwing up the clean install with a lot of crap
that isnt necessary. Anyone got any ideas on this.

regards
Freddie

 

[the gnome]

I plan to move the current hardware into a Lian-Li 6077 case, and use the

server case for the new stuff. It will be a clean install of Win XP Pro. (
Thanks ABXzone for the excellent setup tutorial)
So everything will go smooth and I will have a new mega machine. However I
am a little unsure of things like Favourites, address book, cookies,
passwords etc that are in my old system. I will want to transfer as much of
this to the new without screwing up the clean install with a lot of crap
that isnt necessary. Anyone got any ideas on this.

This info is based on a Win 2k transfer but I assume XP is close.

There should be a folder called 'documents and settings' that has within it
a number of folders named after the people that log onto the machine.

There is also likely to be a folder called 'All Users'

If you save these to disk/CD then set up XP so that you know which of the
old users relate to the new logins, in case someone changes their name.

Then log in as a user and replace all the 'administrator' folder contents
with the contents of the equivalent saved folder.

This will also reset passwords, or if you wish just copy the folders you
need, such as Favourites, desktop, etc.

Then log in as administrator and do the other logins.

For address books you can export them from Outlook Express, and emails you
want to keep, drag them to the desk top (*.eml files) then save them to
disk. The opposite is to import address bools and drag and drop emails back
into Outlook. Also export account details (don't think it carries accross
passwords though).

You can save the outlook dbf files etc and then redirect the new install of
outlook to find them but that is messy, and I usually only have a 50%
success rate.

Hope this helps.

the_gnome

 

[Maintane]

Once you have your new PC running on XP, look for "Files and settings
transfer wizard" under Programs->Accessories->System Tools. I haven't used
it, but it looks like it will work pretty well if your PC is fairly
organized.

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