Windows xp migration tool windows 7

This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 3. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. This will remove all your programs, but you can save your files and settings to an external storage before doing so. Also, you'll have to reinstall all your programs. Here are the steps: 1. Back up your files and settings. USMT provides the following sample scripts:. It also defines how to migrate access control lists ACLs.

The source ACL information is migrated only when you explicitly specify the directory. For more information, see ScanState Syntax. For more information, see Offline Migration. Some settings, such as fonts, are not applied by the LoadState tool until after the destination computer has been restarted.

For this reason, restart the destination computer after you run the LoadState tool. Although it is not required for all applications, it is good practice to install all applications on the destination computer before restoring the user state.

This ensures that migrated settings are preserved.. Note: The versions of installed applications must match on the source and destination computers. USMT does not support migrating the settings of an earlier version of an application to a later version, except for Microsoft Office. Note USMT migrates only the settings that have been used or modified by the user.

If there is an application setting on the source computer that was not touched by the user, the setting may not migrate. The following is a list of the settings that USMT does not migrate. If you are having a problem that is not listed here, see Common Issues. In my installation the ScanState. I have used Win7 to Win7 already and it works great. It is the perfect tool to go from 32bit to 64bit or going from Eval to Production.

If you are using the same box and not formatting for any reason, you can use Hardlink. If you want to format or change disks, move to a different computer, etc. Hope I answered your questions completely. If not, please let me know. That hardlink reply made me wonder about something. I am not familiar with any switches to be able to do that.

Sure you could select folders from the Windows. OLD but then on the destination they would be put back to the same folder structure windows. Since these locations all moved with the new rev from Docs and Settings to Users that would be a manual process to do it the way you suggest.

I am looking to implement USMT 4. Hi Bryan, Sorry, Is there something in particular that you need help with? In fact, that is exactly what it was designed for. David Strom writes and speaks about security, networking and communications topics for CSO Online, Network World, Computerworld and other publications.

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