Moving to vista - actually moving, that is!
There’s a great article in the New York Times that offers a series of solutions (pros and cons) of the different methods for moving all of your data (and maybe your software programs, too) from one computer to a new one.
There are great tips. A couple of things to think about in ADDITION, though:
1. Do you really know where all of your data lives? If you’re like me - you probably don’t. You’ll forget to make a copy of your QuickBooks file, or to snag a copy of your Outlook information. Or maybe you’ll have downloaded an important software program - and while you know it is on your hard drive - you might not know where! Make sure you ask all of those questions and more. TIP: Call a friend and tell them you are wiping your hard drive - and ask THEM what they would look for. And then call another friend or two and ask the same questions!
2. Make sure you have both your original software media (CD’s, floppy discs for really old software and so on) AND that you have the appropriate license keys.
3. If you have the space - don’t de-commission that old workstation for a month or two - you’ll feel much more comfortable knowing you can turn it on to look for something that you might have left out when you copied your data!
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