Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: LapLink
EAN: 0048296307946
Format: CD-ROM
Label: LAPLINK
Manufacturer: LAPLINK
Model: PAFGPCMV01000PDRCPEN
Packaged Height: 225 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 1000 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 1130 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 825 hundredths-inches
Platform: No Operating System
Publisher: LAPLINK
Studio: LAPLINK
Product Description:
PCmover will determine which programs, files, and settings need to be moved, and when the transfer is complete, your new computer will have the personality and functionality of your old PCÂ plus all of its own pre-installed software. Works with almost any Windows operating system, from Windows 95 to Vista.
Customer Reviews:
 Doesn't work in real world, 2007-10-11
I concur with Christopher Bermingham (10 Apr 2007). I bought PCmover on 27 May 2005 and never could use it, because it requires too many and tight conditions to actually work in the real world:
- in most cases it will imply that you upgrade the HD on your new computer, since the old PC probably is bloated with plenty apps and data (if you afford the time to clean your old PC, then you have better migrate by hand than using an automated tool. I admit however that my old faithful laptop is particularly loaded since intensively used and never reinstalled since 1999: about 30GB used without any sound or video downloaded)
- it requires (in its User Guide) you to check that you update your PCmover and your Windows on both PCs just before trying to migrate: another condition that delays and slows the process; the worse being that Laplink doesn't show the version number of PCmover on its site, and you can't redownload to try, since Laplink limits the number of downloads
- it requires you have higher level of everything on the newer PC. Which is sometimes impossible, e.g. some components of MS .Net Framework fail to install on Win XP Pro while they do work on W2K.
- these conditions make you start using the new computer first, which at once renders the migration much more complicated and adds even more conditions, which enters you in a catch-22 where you go open and start the old PC and copy data and apps one at a time in a hurry when needed, and finally never can use your PCmover. Next time if ever I buy it again (which may happen nevertheless if they fix it), I will make sure I immediately buy a bigger HD and make at once the whole entire migration, before I do a single bit of work on that new PC. Laplink should only sell this product bundled with a new PC for one single use on the very first day, and with a double big warning of 1. having a big HD on the new PC and 2. not touching anything on it before migration.
- Laplink (but I wouldn't be too bad to them: this is just what most big software companies have become now, Laplink is no worse than others) doesn't understand what customers need or want, or what data reliability is (probably using products built by people no more in their staff), and can't properly handle the normal process of feedbacking, fixing, improving, in a word: maintaining the product.
- I hope this product gets improved however, but for now it can't really be used unless in very simple cases - where it would be therefore unnecessary.
Versailles, Thu 11 Oct 2007 19:19 +0200, edited Mon 22 Oct 2007 23:44 +0200
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