Comments on: Easing the Pain of Moving to a New Windows PC http://gigaom.com/collaboration/easing-the-pain-of-moving-to-a-new-windows-pc/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 10 Useful Thunderbird Add-ons for Almost Everybody http://gigaom.com/collaboration/easing-the-pain-of-moving-to-a-new-windows-pc/#comment-84390 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:01:41 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=14993#comment-84390 [...] recently moved to a new computer, which compelled me to revisit my Thunderbird add-ons. Here’s a list of my favorites. [...]

]]> By: Steve http://gigaom.com/collaboration/easing-the-pain-of-moving-to-a-new-windows-pc/#comment-84389 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:15:28 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=14993#comment-84389 Effectively managing pc inventory across the LAN, WAN, and now more than ever, the Internet, can be a daunting or even impossible task. I talk with IT Managers who struggle to understand what it is they have out there to manage. Successful IT support starts with knowing what you have. If you are looking for a solution that provides the reporting and detailed inventory of every system I would highly recommend looking at the pc inventory software from Kaseya.

]]> By: LimeSpace – IT » Die Links der Woche – Juli Nummer #1 :-) http://gigaom.com/collaboration/easing-the-pain-of-moving-to-a-new-windows-pc/#comment-84388 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:38:02 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=14993#comment-84388 [...] Ebenfalls von Webworker Daily gibt es eine gelungene Anleitung zum Vorgehen beim Wechseln der Windows Workstation. [...]

]]> By: Meryl Evans http://gigaom.com/collaboration/easing-the-pain-of-moving-to-a-new-windows-pc/#comment-84387 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:14:37 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=14993#comment-84387 @OBR, I use remote login on my laptop. I prefer to work at the desktop because it’s in my home office and sets the right mood to get work done. Laptop — not as much, but I do work on it.

@Ben, that’s exactly right! A way to restore your customized software and Windows settings without carrying over the garbage left on the old PC. I keep all my data in one big folder — but of course, some settings automatically go under Application Data.

]]> By: ben nguyen http://gigaom.com/collaboration/easing-the-pain-of-moving-to-a-new-windows-pc/#comment-84386 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:17:54 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=14993#comment-84386 Besides installing all the 3rd party applications, the biggest pain for me is to setup all the little things. For example, unchecking the hide file extensions, show system files, view details… adding context menu items in explorer (hjsplit, cprompt, etc)

The ideal way of backing up your settings/apps is to image the drive, however that only works if the new pc has the same hardware.

What would be nice is if an application could image a drive minus hardware specific settings/drivers (i.e motherboard, etc), and then slipstream it onto an installation cd so everything is automatically installed/configured based on the new hardware.

]]> By: Online Backups Review http://gigaom.com/collaboration/easing-the-pain-of-moving-to-a-new-windows-pc/#comment-84385 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:53:12 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=14993#comment-84385 I recently switched from a desktop to laptop, and keep VNC on the desktop, so if I need to get to anything, I can just open an app on the laptop and use the desktop like I was sitting right there. It’s helpful because I didn’t move over all my applications (some I only use once / year).

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