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| Avanquest Laplink PC Mover (Vista Edition with USB 2.0 cable) (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Avanquest Software
Category: Software
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £39.99
You Save: £10.00 (20%)
New (6) from £37.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 342
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows Me
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 2.2
EAN: 5026247174965
ASIN: B000MR0LJQ
Release Date: February 2, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Saved a lot of time and trouble June 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We were moving from an XP box to a new Vista PC. The instructions were clear and concise. The limitations of the product are also clearly stated - you may need to reactivate some licence keys on the new box, and don't expect device drivers to come over.
Bearing these limitations in mind, I will state that the programme did what is said on the tin for us - user accounts, passwords, personal profiles, programmes, document folders and structures, all came across neatly, including desktop wallpapers! We are reactivating licence keys as necessary, this is not too much trouble, and have installed printers, digicams etc on the new machine.
It took about 4 hours in total including the installation process - about 3h30 to transfer about 19GB of data, via the silver-plated LapLink cable supplied in the box.
All in all, this will have save us many hours of manually copying files and reinstalling programmes. Recommended.
 Beware! Not compatible with 64-bit version of Vista March 31, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It does not work with the 64-bit version of Vista. It does not clearly state this either on the Amazon description nor on the product box itself. Since complaining to the makers Laplink, I see they have now added this warning on their own website.
Not very good at all March 16, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have an absolutely standard Win XP system..Dell. I used PC Mover and basically it appeared to work ok but almost everything I tried to do on the new PC was fraught with gremlins of one sort or another. Could not get the PC to work when selecting Restart (had done previously). Kept losing connection to the Internt via Broadband: in parallel had the old PC online and it was fine. Internet Explorer opened two instances and they got really messed up, etc etc etc. I am quite PC literate but this one defeated me. SO I took the option of backing it all out. The PC is now working fine, all of the above problems and others are resolved.
Basically I WANT MY MONEY BACK.
Did exactly what it promised on the box. June 14, 2007
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
I read the review on this site and a number of other adverse reviews and thought long and hard about using this. However, one technical review said that so long as you are careful to follow the instructions to the letter, it works fine.
I was transferring from an XP laptop to Vista.
I started by doing a thorough clean up of the XP computer. I chucked out all the Apps I never use and ran a cleanup and a virus check on all the rest. I used Quick Clean to get rid of all excess junk, leftovers, double entries etc. I also ran a registry clean up. When I was sure that I had done all that I could, I gave the whole machine an exhaustive defrag with a specialist programme.
Next, I did the same for the Vista Computer. As it was almost straight out of the box, this only took very little time.
The next thing - and according to what I read - the most important thing was to disable all background running applications on both computers, paying particular attention to virus programs and firewalls. Also, I was told, it was vital to disable screensavers and power 'time-outs' etc. This I did. Only then did I load up the software as instructed on both machines, connect the USB 2.0 cable and left the machines to 'chat to each other' for three and a half hours.
I was fully expecting at least one or two problems BUT NO. Three and a half hours later, everything was safely transferred (or rather copied) from one machine to the other. What had taken a week when I traded up a few years back from Windows 98 to XP took only half a Saturday to complete and three hours of that was spent watching the Test Match on TV while the actual transfer happened. What a fantastic product! I have nothing but praise for it.
 Big disappointment March 11, 2007
19 out of 23 found this review helpful
I've used Laplink back since the days of Laplink 3 and decided this would be a great way to save time migrating info over.
The software lacked any real ability to customise what was copied over so if your existing machine is configured perfectly and you want to move all apps over great.
If however you want to take the opportunity to really move forward use standard laplink to move over useful folders such as My Documents, Music, etc and take the time to install apps as new. I'd also spend the time looking at Vista as I found that some of the built in extras do away with the need for extra system tools I'd previously install in XP.
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