Laplink PC Mover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant

Computer Technology and Software

April 27th, 2010 by admin

The Only way to upgrade from XP to Windows 7 hassle free
Keep your Applications with no reinstalling
Upgrade from any version of Windows
Select which programs and files you keep
Easy to use wizard

Product Description
PCmover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant - the ONLY way to upgrade from XP 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.Amazon.com Product Description
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Laplink PC Mover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant

5 Responses

P. Forslind writes:
April 27th, 20104:55 pmat

You are wasting your time with this product. Called Laplink and they could care less.
Rating: 1 / 5
Dale E. Coy writes:
April 27th, 20107:02 pmat

If you won’t read the screen and make intelligent decisions (on the “Ask” addons and Laplink addons), get another product. If you aren’t going to follow instructions from the documentation and the screen, get another product.

Otherwise, this does just what it claims. I wanted to upgrade one PC from XP to W7 – and was willing to install Vista. Tried twice to just upgrade to Vista and the Microsoft upgrade failed. Bought PCMover, followed instructions, and went directly to Windows 7, with everything I wanted to move along. Just what I wanted to do. Not fast (several hours), but how could it be?
Rating: 4 / 5
J. Ruth writes:
April 27th, 20109:03 pmat

I printed and read both the long and short version of the instructions and followed them precisely. Nothing usable was transferred, just a bunch of non-usable garbage that I now have to clean up. I am now going through the multi-day process of transferring everything manually. What a waste of money and time.
Rating: 1 / 5
popnull writes:
April 27th, 201011:53 pmat

I upgraded from 64bit Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 professional 64bit using this software.

This software does what it says, it moves your programs and files and anything else you want over but be warned that some programs and hardware might not work. The process is fairly simple, you run the program, pick the files you want, it creates a “moving van” file that stores your choices of what you wanted to transfer in a small file that is 20 MB or less. This file is stored on your computer in C:. You then upgrade to Windows 7 using the custom install instructions, without reformatting. The Windows 7 install then stores your old files in a folder called “Windows. old”. After windows 7 is installed, you run the PC Mover Upgrade Assistant and upload your files and programs back on your computer.

Everything seems fine, but for me a lot of my programs did not work. I also had a glitch that wouldn’t let me install new programs,and my drivers for my video card and stuff wouldn’t work. So I just ended up doing a reformat anyway and loading back to Vista. I then did a clean install of Windows 7 without reloading my files from the PC Mover software. Everything works fine now.

I would not recommend using this software. I feel that a clean install will always be better/faster. Just make sure to backup your files.

Worst off there is no refund or return for this product.
Rating: 1 / 5
Compuguru writes:
April 28th, 20102:38 amat

This product seems great on the surface, but it does not work !

It transferred all the programs and settings but everything but Microsot Office Word had problems.

Some Examples . . .

Adobe Design Premium CS3 ( Photoshop, Illustrator etc . . . ) “License Error” Reinstallation required message at launch

Microsoft Visual Studio 6 ( Missing DLLs error nessage at launch )

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 ( Acted as if it were just installed, missing functions )

Gimp ( error messages, missing dlls, crash)

many . . . many many other problems. . .

Not worth the money or especially the day and a half of wasted time and effort. . . . . . .

You would be an idiot not to have a complete backup before you run this program, if you are foolhardy enough to try it. . . . .
Rating: 1 / 5