Needless hassles: courtesy of Wall St.
Microsoft will gladly transfer all your settings and documents from one drive (or computer) to another but tells you that you have to re-install all your programs individually by hand. Just recently, however, I was able to use a data transfer product that copied even my programs.
The reason Microsoft doesn't buy the rights to EzMigration (or steal it outright b/c that's what it's good at) is that this behemoth is paranoid about piracy. They fear that if we are given the ability to transfer everything, we will distribute free copies of Windows all over the globe, and, to prevent charges of hypocrisy, they also will not copy anyone else's program to a new drive.
So what does Wall St. have to do with this? In my opinion, any loss of revenue especially from something so easily prevented as piracy is to be stopped at all costs in order to keep the price of stock up and the reason this is so important is that people like Mr. Balmer have their coffers filled from this ungodly spigot known as Wall St. The result, of course, is that the poor user of the Microsoft product is left to use whatever ingenuity he can muster to prevent a week of what amounts to very frustrating hair pulling as dozens of his/her programs have to be re-installed. What does Microsoft care? You still have to use their operating system or switch to the other choice which is equally as greedy (Apple).
To end this on a positive note, here are the particulars of my experience with EzMigration: 1.) lay out 40 bucks for the program. 2.) the next part is unfortunate but you have to go through a convoluted process of authentication to actually use the program but I don't blame them b/c the program does perform a very useful function. 3.) run the program and select your 'C' drive as your source and any other listed drive as your target (same size or larger). In my case, this took under an hour. 4.) increase the size of the partition of the larger target drive. This sounds more complicated than it really is but actually a piece of cake thanks to the easy-to-use graphical interface of the program. 5.) make your target drive your 'C' drive. In my case, this is just a matter of switching ATA plugs on the motherboard. To give you an idea of how easy to use this program is, their demo (user manual) takes about 30 seconds to comprehend. Full support is also given if needed.
The entire process took less than two hours and saved me a whole week of re-installation work, and had I misplaced my product keys for any program, I would have been doubly screwed by Microsoft paranoia.
Addendum: although EzMigration was successful with all my non-Microsoft programs, the bastards that are Microsoft found a way to throw a monkey wrench into the works. I have lost functionality in Outlook and there is no way I can see to authenticate my program. This is no fault of EzMigration, it is only the sick paranoia of a greedy bastard.
The reason Microsoft doesn't buy the rights to EzMigration (or steal it outright b/c that's what it's good at) is that this behemoth is paranoid about piracy. They fear that if we are given the ability to transfer everything, we will distribute free copies of Windows all over the globe, and, to prevent charges of hypocrisy, they also will not copy anyone else's program to a new drive.
So what does Wall St. have to do with this? In my opinion, any loss of revenue especially from something so easily prevented as piracy is to be stopped at all costs in order to keep the price of stock up and the reason this is so important is that people like Mr. Balmer have their coffers filled from this ungodly spigot known as Wall St. The result, of course, is that the poor user of the Microsoft product is left to use whatever ingenuity he can muster to prevent a week of what amounts to very frustrating hair pulling as dozens of his/her programs have to be re-installed. What does Microsoft care? You still have to use their operating system or switch to the other choice which is equally as greedy (Apple).
To end this on a positive note, here are the particulars of my experience with EzMigration: 1.) lay out 40 bucks for the program. 2.) the next part is unfortunate but you have to go through a convoluted process of authentication to actually use the program but I don't blame them b/c the program does perform a very useful function. 3.) run the program and select your 'C' drive as your source and any other listed drive as your target (same size or larger). In my case, this took under an hour. 4.) increase the size of the partition of the larger target drive. This sounds more complicated than it really is but actually a piece of cake thanks to the easy-to-use graphical interface of the program. 5.) make your target drive your 'C' drive. In my case, this is just a matter of switching ATA plugs on the motherboard. To give you an idea of how easy to use this program is, their demo (user manual) takes about 30 seconds to comprehend. Full support is also given if needed.
The entire process took less than two hours and saved me a whole week of re-installation work, and had I misplaced my product keys for any program, I would have been doubly screwed by Microsoft paranoia.
Addendum: although EzMigration was successful with all my non-Microsoft programs, the bastards that are Microsoft found a way to throw a monkey wrench into the works. I have lost functionality in Outlook and there is no way I can see to authenticate my program. This is no fault of EzMigration, it is only the sick paranoia of a greedy bastard.
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