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Upgrading your PC to Windows 7? Only 14 of the 66 upgrade scenarios detailed by Microsoft are supported by Windows 7--and upgrading from XP to Windows 7 is not supported. That's why we created PCmover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant--the ONLY way to upgrade from XP to Windows 7! It helps you upgrade quickly and easily from any version of Windows (version 2000 or later) to Windows 7. All your programs, files and settings are saved right where you want them! Don't risk losing important data by starting over. Rest assured that all your important data will be saved with an in-place upgrade to Windows 7 using PCmover.
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The Only Way to Upgrade From XP to Windows 7
If you want to upgrade your computer from XP to Windows 7 and not lose all your files and programs, you need PCmover.No need to copy files to external media; no need to reinstall all your applications. PCmover does it all for you without any external storage, without copying files, and without having to find your old CDs and serial numbers!
There are many possible upgrade scenarios; in fact, here's a chart.
It may seem confusing, but here's the solution: PCmover Upgrade Assistant. XP to Windows 7? No problem! Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional? Yep, we do that. How about Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit? Of course!
Using PCmover to upgrade to Windows 7 is easy. First, run PCmover and follow the easy-to-use wizard. Then install Windows 7, choosing "custom" install but do not reformat. Then run PCmover again. That's it--you're done. Everything is exactly how you want it--without copying files or reinstalling programs!
Keep it simple. Save yourself the time and hassle of upgrading by using PCmover.
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Features
Application Selectivity
Choose which applications you want to have on your upgraded PC.
Folder & File Selectivity
Select which folders you want and uncheck any file types that you don't want to have after the upgrade.
Keep Everything
All programs, files and settings can stay exactly as they were in your old operating system with one easy step.
Easy-To-Use Wizard
Click through a simple wizard to perform the upgrade.
Laplink Software Money Back Guarantee
Laplink makes every effort to provide top quality products and we take pride in our software line and the benefits they provide our many valued customers. There are times when a product must be returned and for that reason, if you experience a problem and have contacted our technical support team and still are unable to utilize our software, we will refund your product cost. Laplink provides a 30-day money back guarantee for current products from the date of purchase of the product(s) with technical support approval.
What You Should Know
PCmover Upgrade Assistant should be used only as intended and as described in the User Guide. If you attempt to use this product for unintended purposes, your computer may become unstable or unusable. If you have any questions, please visit technical support.
- Some programs on your old computer may not be compatible with a newer operating system.
- Files with Digital Rights Management (DRM) such as music files and programs that require keys or serial numbers with a hardware fingerprint may require reactivation.
- Some programs with unique copy protection may need to be reinstalled or reactivated with their original key or serial number.
- Be sure to deactivate programs with online-managed activation (such as various Adobe products and iTunes) before upgrading your operating system.
- Antivirus and Anti-Spyware programs may not be automatically installed on your new operating system
- Specific hardware drivers will not be moved to your new operating system.
- PCmover is not designed for migrations from newer operating systems to older operating systems. For example, we do not recommend attempting to migrate from a PC running Windows 7 to a PC running Windows XP as doing so may render your system unstable.
- Please note that PCmover Upgrade Assistant serial numbers are unique to PCmover Upgrade Assistant and will not work with other editions of PCmover.
- Windows 7 upgrade DVD is not included.
Product Description
UPGRADE YOUR HOME COMPUTER - With Pcmover Upgrade Assistant, you can upgrade your existing PC to Windows 7 without having to reformat your hard drive and reinstall all of your applications. All your current files, settings, and applications are transferred automatically. All you need to do is follow a few simple instructions provided by the wizard, step back, and relax while PCmover does all the work. UPGRADE YOUR BUSINESS COMPUTERS - Would you like your employees to work with the newest Windows operation system? No problem. PCmover Upgrade Assistant handles the in place XP to Windows 7 upgrades that Microsoft does not. Save hours of employee and IT time and productivity by automating the upgrade process to Windows 7.
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91 of 94 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Requires Some Close Supervision,
This review is from: Laplink PC mover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant (CD-ROM)
Laplink is a company whose products go a long way back and have a history of quality and reliability. Laplinks' PC Mover is no different: it really does migrate anything and everything from one machine to another without requiring you to reinstall all your software. It is not as easy as the website and its customer testimonials promise, but if you go slowly and pay close attention to what it is doing, you will be pleasantly surprised at not having to re-unlock Microsoft Office, dig out installation CDs and DVDs, or re-register cherished DRM-infected games. PC Mover even uses the simple metaphors of "Moving Vans" and "Loading and Unloading the Moving Van" to make things easy to understand.
This listing is the boxed product of PC Mover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant: the digital download version is the same product, but nothing is shipped to you. Instead you pull it down on your computer. You may view the Digital Download version here: Laplink PC Mover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant [DOWNLOAD] This "Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant" flavor of PC Mover is a pretty sweet deal: a lower price gets you a one-time migration to Windows 7. This can be used for upgrading one machine and putting everything back on afterwards. For every additional machine you wish to use this version of PC Mover, you will need to purchase an additional license. My only complaint with the software is when it tries to step out of the path of what you are doing, and pull you along with it. For example, after you agree to the license and read the disclaimer and warning, you are given a link to the documentation in PDF form. This is a good diversion: it allows you one last chance to print out and/or read the manual (and I strongly advise you to do so). The next step, however, tells you it will make [...] your default search provider and change your browser's home page to [...] (which, ha ha, you didn't ASK for, did you?). Say no, and the next step tugs at you again: this time it's showing you a license agreement. If you're not paying attention--hey, wait! Didn't I already agree to the license? Yes, you did....this is the license agreement to install the [...] toolbar and embed it in your browser. At first glance it might seem like saying no would cancel your installation of PC Mover, but it won't...say no and move on. Just as you think you're at the end, you'll get snagged one more time: this time Laplink wants you to go look at some of its other software. It looks like a setup screen, it's in the setup wizard...but it's really just another ad. I'm a little busy trying to migrate everything that matters to me--can't you do this after we upgrade? I'm not going to install a bunch of Laplink products now, not use them, back them up, and then restore it all after the upgrade--leave me alone! The only other point--and this is a very important one--is a bit confusing. The last step as you back things up will tell you that the program has identified X number of GigaBytes of content, and thanks to compression, the actual size of this content will probably be about half. This is their way of reminding you that on whatever drive you're going to put the content, you're going to need to have that much free space available or else you'll have a problem. PC Mover will then finish in seconds. Another confusing point: the "Moving Van" file PC Mover creates at this point is tiny--just a few MegaBytes, not the GigaBytes it just told you about. The GigaBytes referred to earlier are elsewhere; this is just a "roadmap" so the "Moving Van" doesn't get lost. Probably the nicest thing about this program is that once you're ready to "Unload the Moving Van" it's as simple as installing the software on the new machine, pointing it at the "Moving Van" file, and waiting while it "Unloads." Reboot and you'll be amazed - it really was all there for me, unlocked, re-registered, and working like a charm. If you want to move one machine to Windows 7, this is a good tool, but you need to be a step above "Beginner"...and you need to watch the program closely as it does its work. I guess everybody needs to make a buck, but I wish Laplink hadn't gone out of their way to mislead you into re-sponsoring it: it'd be a 5-star product if the Moving Van weren't driven by a shoddy used-car salesman hawking his wares at you along the way.
37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Warning! Don't depend on this program.,
By Potts-n-Pans (Hillsboro, Or United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Laplink PC mover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant (CD-ROM)
We followed directions explicitly in upgrading our Vista computer to Win 7. PC Mover was not only a complete failure (nothing migrated to the new OS), but it has locked us out of installing or uninstalling any program. Unfortunately, due to rave reviews on various computer magazine sites, we foolishly did not back up some files to hard copies, but depended upon the utility provided by PC Mover. We got an error message and contacted PC Mover technical support via live chat and were told that "we must have done something wrong". That was it...great tech support. Contacting PC Mover by phone yielded less help. When asked if we were moving from one pc to another or if we were upgrading a single machine, the support person groaned when we confirmed the latter situation, and suggested that we should get a refund.
So...no tech support, and no working computer...this software deserves a minus rating if it were available.
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
If you think it worked, check again!,
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This review is from: Laplink PC mover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant (CD-ROM)
I have NEVER deleted a review in Amazon before this product. I completely trashed my previous review praising the PC Mover Upgrade Assistant after I realized that my system was broken in a very aggravating way.
After the problems were discovered and LapLink support was worse than useless, I rolled back my Moving Van unpacking and installed all my apps by hand under Win7. The Good: It did in fact migrate all my third party applications and games from the old PC (your machine before the OS reinstall) to the new PC (your machine after the Win7 Upgrade). Some programs did require that the activation key be re-entered. This was expected and not problematic. I bypassed some glitchy Win7 issues with older games on DirectX 11 when I had completed the migration. I would recommend printing out the Upgrade assistant PDF file and following the steps. For this kind of in-place upgrade, the moving van is smaller than the PC Assistant thinks it is. A program error I'm sure, but it's not really packing up your software for this kind of in-place migration. It's packing up registry settings so it can point the new OS to the programs where they are already located on your hard drive. This made for an uncomfortable moment when I began the moving van unpack and LapLink informed me that I was restoring a 240GB van file to a drive with only 230GB free. This was not correct - the van was not truly that size, and the unpack completed with no more space taken up than was used by the new OS files. The Bad: If something goes wrong in the move, your best recourse is to un-do the Moving Van unpack, which essentially brings you back to the point after you have installed Windows 7, but before you imported all your stuff into Windows 7 again. I guess that wasn't too bad - I never intended to go back to Vista anyway. Also, if something goes wrong during the packing, there is no means of reviewing what's in the moving van (and it took quite a while to pull the van together). You would have to completely roll back the OS upgrade and start over from scratch. The Ugly: The system seemed to be just fine until a relative visiting four days after my upgrade wanted to play Windows Solitaire, a game I rarely look at. It wasn't there, when normally, it's installed during the OS install by default. The problem occurred in Windows Features. I know - how many average users add or remove Windows Features (under Programs)? I do - perhaps not all the time, but if I wish to add or remove an operating system feature, like accessories, or remote desktop, or voice commands, or solitaire for pete's sake, I'd like to be able to. After the Laplink moving van was unpacked, I wasn't able to add or remove any Windows OS Features. Which meant some portion of Vista that had it's settings migrated broke the ability to change the configuration of the apps that come bundled with Win7. I contacted LapLink support and was told that some applications wouldn't work - contact the manufacturer. Well, it was part of the OS, and I told them so, and the "tech" insisted that Solitaire and Minesweeper were not from Microsoft, and that I should contact the manufacturer of those products and download versions of the product that were compatible with Windows 7... Usually, even the worst, lowest level tech is aware that solitaire is on every Windows operating system. This guy wasn't that advanced. After going around for a while, I ended the support chat and rolled back the moving van unpack job. This took about 6 hours, and I let it run overnight. The next day, it was back to plain Windows7, no programs migrated, but I was able to add and remove Windows features (including the little games bundled with the OS) with no problem. I proceeded to reinstall all my programs one at a time - Which is precisely what this product claims to help you avoid! I had figured, hey, for $10 it was a good experiment and it might be really good. Instead, it was a waste of my time. I will say that unless someone had asked me to get solitaire working on my system, I might not have noticed the problem for months, and by then might not have associated it with the PC Mover Upgrade Assistant, making it harder to troubleshoot. This product has cured me, for a little while anyway, of wanting to take an installation shortcut.
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