Customer Reviews

Easy PC Transfer

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Based upon the good performance of Backup My PC by the same publisher, I purchased this product. What a waste of time and money. It offers no advantage over the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard in XP and, what is more, doesn't seem to work. I did the deferred transfer - which the user guide tells me to copy the data to a folder and then copy it to the destination machine. I did this three times- and it is painfully slow. Then each time the destination machine could not run the created .exe file (which it is supposed to do) and gave an error message that this was not a valid windows executable file. When I tried to reach Stompsoft for help, I was on hold for more than 45 minutes and finally gave up. I went back to the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard in XP which worked in about 1/3 the time and was just fine. I would ask StompSoft for my money back but I don't want to be on hold for another hour.

Unlike the other reviewers, I tried the Real Time transfer. What a nightmare! It didn't work at all. Their packaging says you can get support at their web site. Yet at their site, not only is this product not even listed in the knowledge base or troubleshooting sections, but the site isn't even FINISHED. Most pages have a "coming soon" (with no specifics of whether "soon" is next week, next month, a year from now - or a year ago). At this late stage in the evolution of the World Wide Web, there's simply no excuse for sending your customers to the dead end of a site that's still under construction.

It's a horrible product with non-existent support. Only buy it if you're really hurting for an overpriced shiny new beverage coaster.

Boy, am I sorry I didn't read that last review
(from W. Prensky) before I ordered - what a
waste of time!

I was just installing a larger hard drive and
updating the Service Pack of Windows XP. The
source and destination PC was the same PC!

Yet, using Easy PC Transfer's deferred migration
option to create a self-extracting executable
resulted in an exe file that could not be
extracted on the destination PC!

And don't even think you can return this software
to StompSoft if you bought it through Amazon.
You can only return products purchased on their
(StompSoft's) web site!

I bought this program so I could move all my old computer to my new computer. Wow this program sounds like a piece of cake NOT!
Well, it did not work at all. It moved some things just enough to make a mess. It just brought over pieces and parts of different programs. So I thought OK I will just use the undo that the program says works soooooooo great! NOT!!! It would not undo the mess it made on my new computer. So I had to do a complete reinstall on my new computer to set it back up to the original factory settings. I then had to to just start all over again this time without the so called Easy PC Transfer. I just had to to it the old fashion way one program at a time. So I would advise using the program for target practice only. That is all it is good for. Also there is NO RETURN on it so I am just stuck! All I got was taken for $40.00 and a lot of headaches.

I tried every way that the instructions said to transfer data from my wifes old computer to her new one. I selected the files I wanted to move and created the "executable" file on her old laptop desktop. The new one would not work with it. I tried it live and still no progress. Finally I gave up and my wife preceded to copy her Favorites by hand and then enter them into her new favorite list. It was the same with her address book. What a pain. This software makes big promises but no results. Save your money and use Windows program. I wish I had.

They are window tools that you can use to do pretty much the same thing as this software. Try researching FAST or Backup/(restore)for windows. You should be able to find both these tools in the System tools folder. I would try using the help and support, to understand how to use the tools. I hope this helps.

I had purchased a new laptop because the old one crashed. I was able to have a computer tech get the old one up for a few days, but he warned me to transfer my files as soon as possible because he didn't know how long it would last. I bought PC Transfer after reading about it. The setup was easy - simply download it on to both computers and label each either the source or the recipient. It took quite a lot of guessing to choose the files to transfer as I didn't have the foggiest idea about some of them. After transferring, my new laptop had some of the quirks my old one had, so I was able to use the "undo". I decided to only transfer the files that were my actual documents and decided to not transfer any of the settings, etc. So if I knew a little more, it would be perfect I'm sure. It was a bit scary for someone who doesn't know what some of the files are though.