[geeks] windows 2000 migration

[Phil Stracchino]

On 07/28/11 21:04, Shannon wrote:
> On 28-Jul-2011 19:21, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Applications? I don't think those 'transfer' between machines typically.
>>
>> Is this a Dell PC? You could probably upgrade with an OEM WinXP Pro disc then
>> upgrade in place, but that would, IMHO, be a bad idea. Keeping 'kruft' from
>> Win2K and skipping over XP and Vista to arrive at Win 7 would leave the system
>> in a questionable state (think/fear).
>>
>> Better to just copy files over the NIC IMHO.
> 
> Unfortunately that doesn't work for a lot of things.
> 
> Some apps don't put all their data in files, so just copying the files
> can either lose state or worse, they won't work at all. Its just an
> unfortunate fact of Windows way of doing things. It sucks.

Frankly, I always assume that the only safe way is to save all
flat/static user data, then bare-metal install and reinstall all the
applications i still care about, then copy back the static data.

Avoiding Microsoft applications as far as possible helps.


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