Long story short, In-Laws bought a new Windows tower and I need to transfer everything over to new machine, most importantly is Quickbooks and all settings and stored data. What's the best way to ensure easiest migration?
Transfer PC Apps and Files to New Machine
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If it is just data, use a USB drive and move it over with drag and drop. Quickbooks usually has a save and login setting I believe that will do it automatically. Although that may have been the previous version.
It's been a while, but I used EaseUS Todo Transfer successfully. From experience, before I started, I would buy an external drive big enough to hold the drive contents of the old PC, then use something free like ImgBurn to image it. I've also imaged to destination PC, but then, I've made about every mistake one can make with a PC.
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Sure can.
Any half decent piece of software will have a backup and restore function
So assuming this does as well, use that to back up the data to an external drive, install the software on the new machine and then restore
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So assuming this does as well, use that to back up the data to an external drive, install the software on the new machine and then restore
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We just got the in laws a new desktop and that's exactly what we did. In terms of getting individual apps back up and running, it depends on the app. The big ones should have an import/export function - sometimes you can't just open a file.