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New Dell Laptop - Care/Maintainence/Transferring files??

  • 26-11-2009 9:25pm
    #1
    mpearce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭


    HI All,

    have just bought a new laptop and looking for some advice with regard to; setting up the machine/OS
    transferring files from my old machine
    maintainence/best practices (cause i won't be buying again in a hurry)

    I'm sure there's a lot of people in this forum who had to do this recently. I had my old machine for 6 years so there's a lot of important stuff on it files/applications but i don't want to transfer everything.

    And looking to be able to work on college projects that i've already started on the old machine as soon as possible on the new machine.... - will try and make this post as clear as possible !

    And thanks in advance for any responses....

    OS - have got windows vista - Home Premium. As far as i know Dell offer a windows 7 upgrade.

    1) Is this worth getting?

    2) Should i hold off transferring files from my old laptop or does it make a difference when you upgrade OS?

    Transferring files from my old laptop - basically i am looking to transfer some but not all of the files/applications that i had on my old machine

    3) Tried reading up on this and couldn't really make sense of the 'Files and Settings Transfer Wizard'. Can i use this to transfer certain files (don't really want to transfer stuff that i no longer use on the old machine) onto an external HD and then use this to transfer to the new machine?

    4) Should i just manually transfer the files i want to the external drive and then copy onto the new machine?

    5) Is there any way of getting my Microsoft Office (2003) from my old machine. I don't have any Cds for this any more? This would be VERY handy for me? Got Works 9 with the new laptop but use office a lot for college (know about open office but sometimes handier to have MS Office for projects,etc.)

    6) What is the easiest way to transfer applications like my mp3 player software/digital camera software (not to sure if/where to find the Cds) and stuff like my java programming ?

    7) what is the easiest way to transfer downloaded applications - think i still should have the set-up files somewhere on the old machine?

    8) used avira anti-virus on the old machine (found it didn't slow up the machine as much as AVG) but also heard that you should only have one anti-virus - don't think there is any on the new machine - is there an easy way to check and if not i can download what i used before?

    Maintainence


    9) I use the laptop as a desktop replacement - was reading up about preserving the battery - the battery in the last machine is well and truely dead - so read that some people recommend removing the battery and drain/charge it every month to avoid continual small-discharge/charge cycle. Other people say it makes no difference. New machine has Li-ion battery - any opinions?

    10) the sound on my last machine deteroriated badly - i've a theory that running the sound through my stereo wasn't a good idea. It got to the stage where i couldn't watch a dvd on it (with the nosie of the fan) - any best practices for not damaging the sound/speakers


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