Laplink PC Mover Moving Kit

by Avanquest

Product Features

• Complete Migration: Transfer everything you want--all your programs, files, and settings--in one easy move
• Multiple Transfer Options:
• Choose from USB cables, Windows Easy Transfer cable, parallel cables, removable media or a wired/wireless network to do the transfer
• Application Selectivity: Choose which applications you'd like moved over to your new PC
• Folder & File Selectivity: Select which folders and file types you don't want to transferred to your new PC
• Easy-To-Use Wizard Interface: Click through a simple wizard to set up the move.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2 x 8 x 6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000I3C36S
• Item model number: 3771
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (109 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,624 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #37 in Software > Utilities > Backup

Product Description

Amazon.com

Move to Your New PC in 3 Easy Steps. As a new PC or laptop owner, you now have a solution that makes moving everything from your old PC effortless. Just install PCmover on both your old and new PC or laptop. Then, with just a few simple clicks, your programs, files and settings will be transferred to the new PC. Now with PCmover's selectivity feature, you can choose which applications, folders and files to take with you when you migrate to your new PC.

1. Install Install PCmover on both your new & old PC.
2. Connect Automatically connect your PCs by local or wireless network or USB transfer cable included.
3. Transfer Let the wizard guide through a couple easy steps and you're DONE!

Use PCmover to migrate your entire PC
PCmover moves your PC's programs, files, and settings so you don’t have to. Go through the simple wizard and everything will be transferred to your new PC. This includes, but is not limited to:

Microsoft Office Photo Editing Software Design Programs PC Games Instant Messengers Financial and Tax Software

Documents Spreadsheets Photos Videos Music Podcasts

Desktop backgrounds Icons Shortcuts Browser Settings Favorites/Bookmarks Internet & Network Settings

Transfer Your Favorite Programs & Games
With PCmover, all your programs and games move with you to your new PC.

Transfer Undo Feature
PCmover includes failsafe functionality in case you ever change your mind. Restore your new PC back to its original state at any time.

Move All Your User Profiles at the Same Time
PCmover is the only migration solution that can move all your user profiles safely in one easy step.

PCmover is also great for migrating data from a PC to a Mac that is running Windows! Many users now run Windows on their Mac computers using Parallels, Bootcamp, or VMware Fusion. PCmover is able to transfer all data from your old PC to your Windows platform on your Mac.

Product Description

With PCMover you can finally enjoy upgrading to a new computer without the fear of losing important data. This powerful, intuitive migration tool is compatible with any version of Microsoft Windows. It can transfer all your existing applications, settings, data files, and even registry settings to another PC. And you don’t need to tell PCMover where to find anything; it already knows exactly how to complete the move swiftly and accurately. PCMover is also ideal for copying your current configurations to a new notebook or to another computer that you plan to use in addition to your PC. Your new computer will be ready to go; complete with your important files and applications form the old computer and all of the new computer’s pre-existing software.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

94 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Godsend, April 9, 2007

By 

Sir Bowen (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Laplink PC Mover Moving Kit (CD-ROM)

We recently had to upgrade the main computer used by our family, and I was dreading it. We have several user accounts, with hundreds of gigs of data and more applications installed than I can count (many of which were installed so long ago that I'm not even sure that we still have the media.)

Besides that, the new computer came with Vista, so we we were doing an upgrade from XP at the same time (note: if you're using Vista make sure to get the newly-released version of PCmover so that it supports it.)

I was completely impressed by the way that this utility handled the transfer. It was simple to use, and went without a hitch. There were only handful of programs that needed minor tweaking afterwards because either their licensing or their configurations depended on the specific system - all of these were ironed out quickly and everything is running beautifully.

A recommendation... I would recommend "grooming" the old computer a bit before the move: 1) uninstall any applications and remove any data that you don't want moved, since you can't pick and chose during the move. 2) If you're moving to a new OS, upgrade your applications on the old computer to the latest version beforehand. It's easier to handle this separately from any cleanup you may need after the move.

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PCmover highly recommended, October 22, 2007

By 

Michael Feinstein (Bedford, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Laplink PC Mover Moving Kit (CD-ROM)

I bought LapLink PCmover to transfer all the user files and applications from my old PC to my new one. The old PC had many, many applications and the new PC was brand-new. Both run Windows XP.

I think that PCmover did a great job with this task. It saved me hours and hours of time. It's important to understand that the pricing is service-based, not product-based. You don't buy the software for unlimited use. You purchase it on a per-transfer basis. Even at the list price of $50/transfer, I thought it was worthwhile as it transferred everything and saved me lots of time. If you have to do multiple transfers, you can get them cheaper in volume.

I was a bit wary because of some of the negative reviews. But, I found that the product worked very well. I strongly recommend that you read the instructions and follow the on-screen prompts. Moving files between PCs is pretty straight forward. But, moving applications is very tricky. Some applications are tied to your hardware. They may work on your old PC and not your new one. PCmover tries to figure out what these are, but I would recommend that you go through each application to be transferred to make sure that it only transfers the ones you want and doesn't transfer anything machine-specific.

Contrary to some of the reviews I've read, I found that PCmover gave me total control over which files and applications were moved. The recommendations it made were very good, but I did tweak a few things. Also, the transfer worked very well. I had minimal problems on the two transfers I have done now. On one transfer, I had to reinstall the software for my game controllers before they would work. On the other, there was a problem with a driver for my PDA. It's possible that I deselected this from the transfer in reviewing everything. In both cases, it didn't take me long to troubleshoot this and get the software reinstalled.

The good news is that everything else worked. That includes all my little system utilities, Microsoft Office (I had to re-authorize the apps, but they were installed correctly), iTunes (I had to authorize my new PC), and most of my browser settings. The cookies for my various web site logins didn't seem to get transferred, so I had to re-login to a bunch of web site. Not a big inconvenience, and something I would have to do with a new PC anyway. I estimate that PCmover saved me more than one full day of work for each transfer, well worth the price.

I did the transfer over a network. Be prepared for this to take a long time. My biggest transfer was 76GB of data (including a lot of music and email). This took almost 10 hours. But, it worked flawlessly and didn't require any attention once I set it up and started it.

My only other problems had to do with the purchasing process. They have a known problem with IE 7 on their website which makes one software download count as two. So, when you buy the service for the first time, you can only download the software once (not twice, once for each machine). Plan to copy the software to a USB drive or a CD so you can install it on each machine. You'll still have to buy a license key per transfer, but you can put the software onto as many machines as you like in advance of doing the transfers.

The other problem I had in purchasing had to do with LapLink's outsourced purchasing processor, Element 5. They randomly selected my order for manual processing, which was expected to take 12-24 hours. This didn't meet my needs as I was ready to go right then. I contacted LapLink's support and got the phone number of Element 5 (which was nowhere to be found otherwise). Over the phone, I got my purchase put through and was on my way. This delay was needless. It is somewhat out of the control of LapLink, but they still need to make sure that Element 5 processes the payments quickly. I should also mention that I got great response from LapLink on this matter, including from the CEO who I contacted out of frustration. The company is very committed to listening to customers and making their experience a good one.

It may not seem complicated, but moving Windows applications and making them work on a new machine is very tricky and detailed. I was very impressed with how well PCmover worked and have already bought a third license for another transfer. As long as you read the step-by-step instructions and pay attention to what is being transferred, PCmover should work very well to move a lot of data and applications from one PC to another. Highly recommended.

68 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sort of works but not worth the trouble, September 15, 2007

By 

Ken Schumm "pinball fanatic" (Banks, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Laplink PC Mover Moving Kit (CD-ROM)

I used PCmover to move all the applications from my old Windows 2000 notebook to a new Windows XP notebook using the included USB cable. At first PCmover connected right up and started moving files over. Then, for no apparent or well explained reason, an error message popped up and the move failed. It was easy to roll back the migration and try again and the second attempt appeared to succeed. However, from that point on XP on the new notebook was hosed. Applications like Windows Update, ZoneAlarm and the Eclipse software development environment did not work correctly. Windows update could no longer install updates, when ZoneAlarm started up it would consume nearly all the CPU, and the Eclipse environment did not work correctly. That wouldn't have been a huge issue except that UNINSTALL no longer worked. The applications could not be uninstalled. And other base windows functions no longer worked right. For example, it took 30 seconds for Windows Explorer to start and pressing the shortcut keys to bring up the desktop worked erratically. After spending days trying to get the environment working correctly I ended up wiping the drive and reinstalling everything from scratch. PCmover was a complete waste of time and money and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.