Windows 7 : Easy Transfer Files, Users and Settings
Windows 7 comes with an inbuilt utility which allows you to transfer Files, users, Settings, documents, emails, Internet Favorites, videos, shared documents etc from one computer to another without removal from your old computer. This will help you migrate users and their settings to a new system.
You can find this utility under Accessories > System Tools. This utility should be helpful and must be used by system admin either in office which will save so much of hassles to reconfigure again. You can use an external hard drive, USB drive, Network or Easy transfer Cable which directly sends data to your new computer.
Windows 7 Easy transfer Detailed options
It scans for the users and the scans what are the data which has to be backed up fro the user. Here is the list :
- User Scan
- Shared Items / Data Scan
You can easily configure what you want to backup once the scan is complete. Here are the snapshots:
Windows 7 easy transfer
Windows 7 transfer Options
Windows 7 Easy transfer : Select OLD or New computer
Windows 7 Easy transfer Scan
Windows 7 Easy transfer Detailed options
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I would like to have more information about what control I would have over the destination of the old files on my new computer. I intend to have a SSD for the OS and a few key files, and put photos, documents, emails and the like on a HDD. Will the transfer utility allow me to do that easily?
Dear Ashish: At 72 I am considered “not bad” at computer issues, BUT, I have a real concern regarding the following: Our OE6 is corrupted : can’t change fonts; Windows “compacts” FOLDERS & CONTACTS (unnecessarily), and on and on….so my problem is: when I get a new Dell computer including Windows 7, and when I transfer from my XP to the new computer, I fear I will be transferring the above problem with OE and undoing all the positives about getting Windows 7. How do I avoid tranferring OE6 info to the new computer, please. Thanks so much, and regards from Australia: Vivian Anderson And thank you for all your wonderful articles/information.
@Vivian : I would suggest you to repair the OS with the boot cd / installation cd that came along with it. All you will need is the Cd / DVD and your OS Admin password.
You need to boot from the CD / DVD and then trigger the installation. The next point would be to look for repair option which is given as one of the option before actual installation starts.
This will replace all your corrupt files and when you migrate to windows 7 all your files remain intact
HTH
Ashish
Seems good but does not work with 64 bit -> 32 bit dist :/
Thanks you.All you have wrote is very usefull
I’m preparing to migrate from XP to Seven and I can’t upgrade directly,so I hope that this way works!
This is useful, if only Win7 Transfer tool was BACKWARD COMPATIBLE with its own brethren. I should be able to use the old stand by tool in XP to do this transfer. Bad Development! No doughnuts for you, no bonus, and weak sales.
Looking for some help on File transfer. I had XP on my laptop and did a clean install of Win 7. Before I started I ran File and Settings Transfer in XP with all intentions of being able to ‘imprt’ this information once Win 7 was loaded. To my surprise, after loading Win 7, the Win 7 tool is completely different and doesn’t recognize the XP File and Settings transfer. First of all this seems stupid. Secondly do you know of a way to load my old files and settings on the new Win 7 image?
Ron and Win Admin – True, it’s not compatible with the transfer wizard on XP, but MS did give you a very simple solution. Windows will help you install the NEW transfer wizard on your XP computer. See this articale for clear instructions – http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3179/migrate-xp-to-windows-7-with-easy-transfer-and-a-usb-drive/
Dear all,
I see the same problems with many of you. You MUST use the transfer tool in Windows 7 for BOTH computers. You cannot use the XP (or other operating system) transfer tool. It is outdated.
Also, make sure your XP (or other operating system) is functioning well and is not corrupted or polluted with malware. You will only transfer your problems with your data.
I’ve used this tool many times and as long as all is well with both machines it works great.
Aloha,
Scott
MAJR Maui Computer Services
I am trying to easy transfer from a dell with windors xp to windows 7 using a dynex easy transfer cable. I have windows 7 easy transfer software loaded on both but it is not working.
any suggestions? Thanks
How can I remove or delete files and programs that were transfered and downloaded on my new computer by Windows Easy Transfer? (Windows 7).
When I transferred the files I used the advanced option and selected only certain files and programs to be transferred as I did not want all the junk. When I did download on my new computer, I found out that there were many other documents/programs that were downloaded that I did not want and I did not check. How can I clean this up?
I swear I did not see a screen to enter a password when I exported my settings and files to an external drive. But now, on my new computer it is asking me for a password, and I don’t have any idea what to enter.
Has anyone else had this experience?
I’m wondering if anyone has experienced the following problem with Windows easy Transfer between PC’s? The transfer seemed to go ok but I can’t find any of my Quicken data. The new PC didn’t have Quicken installed until after the transfer was complete. When I opened the new version of Quicken, it could not find any of my old data. Where did it go? I fear it didn’t get transfered or was overwritten when I downloaded the new version of Quicken. Anyone experience this problem? Of course the old PC was aready reformated by my son before I discovered this.
Hi, I am transferring data from a Windows XP laptop to a new laptop with Windows 7. I followed the instructions given by the Windows 7 wizard and copied the wizard over to my old laptop. I was able to copy my files over to a 1 Terabyte hard drive. It took about 8 hours, so I woke up in the middle of the night to turn off my old computer once the transfer was complete. The next morning I tried to complete the transfer on my new laptop. Initially, it said there were some corrupted files on my external harddrive, so I did the “automatic fix” it recommended. After that I restarted my computer and opened the wizard again. I followed the instructions in the Wizard, but the Wizard cannot find the easy transfer files on my external harddrive. When I open the hard drive manually, I can see them, but I can’t see them in the Wizard and I can’t get them to transfer.
Has anyone else had this problem? I am self confessedly very bad at computers but I have followed all of the instructions in the Wizard and everything has worked ok until I’ve gotten to this point….
Thanks for your help…
Hello,
Im doing a clean install from my vista 32bit to windows7 64bit and am using the easy file transfer. I go through all the motions and wen it comes time to save the files to my ext hard drive it’ll start and get a percentage of the way and then stops with a message saying the easy transfer file is corrupt.
Does anybody have the solution to this?
Carmen Can you send some screenshots of how you see the files when you see it manually ? If there is any setup kind of file why dont you run it by double clicking.
Vivian Anderson, you won’t have to worry about a corrupt OE because Win7 got out of the email program business. No email apps at at
Is there a convenient way to transfer all user files from the Vista notebook hard drive to the new Windows 7 pc when the Vista PC is dead? I have the hard drive out in a USB enclosure and all the data is there, but I cannot install the easy transfer app on the Vista machine since it is dead.
The Windows Mail account is one of the most important items to me. But it looks like Win7 has Windows LIVE Mail, and I’m not sure yet what the difference is.
I am upgrading from 32 bit XP to Win 7 64 bit. I downloaded the easy transfer software for the XP 32 bit and transferred all my files to a jump drive. I installed Win 7 and when I tried to use the easy transfer to retrieve my files from the jump drive it said it couldn’t open them.
Any suggestions?
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