Oh, you highlight the stuff you want to transfer on one computer and using the same mouse on the new one paste it in!
Thanks. I'll try. It looks reasonable.
I haven't had a new computer in 12 years, but my usual practice was to make my old computer's hard drive a secondary drive in my new computer. The drive goes from being the boot drive to being a data drive. You can access everything on it.
Yeh or if it's just little stuff chuck it on a usb.
Profwiz: https://www.forensit.com/move-computer.html
Download: https://www.forensit.com/Downloads/Transwiz.msi
I've used this a lot and it works great but it doesn't do everything. You should just reinstall all applications from scratch rather than trying to migrate them completely. Chrome profile, other bullshit it's usually just researching online to see where the exact settings live on your old PC and how to movie it to the new PC.
Look into Windows Easy Transfer. It worked on Win8.1 the last time I needed to use it. Not sure how it works today because M$ gave up on it long ago.
For the data, why not just take out the drive and shove it in the new machine?
As for bookmarks, there is an option to back those up, inside the browser.
For all other windows settings, I'd say fuck 'em, and do a fresh install. Then spend an evening disabling and setting up the stuff you need/don't need.
As long as you just moved the disk to a new machine, you'll always have your old data available, until you think you got what you needed from it, and decide to nuke it.
Better to start fresh, especially if running newer software. Importing old settings can invoke weird bugs. New software needs to be gone over anyway. Finally, you tend to collect lots of cruft in a computer.
Bookmarks (and your files of course) are about the only things worth transferring. Browsers have a way to export bookmarks, then import them into the new one. Check the menus.
Browser settings are usually stored under your profile/app data/roaming/nameofbrowserorvendor.
Assuming the hard drive isn't going bad, you can always move the drive to your new machine and use it as a secondary, or dump it to the new drive before failure.
I recently needed to move a friends Operating System to a new disk as they were running out of drive space - we used the Windows tools to make a backup and then restored it on the new disk using the process here - https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-10/how-to-migrate-windows-10-to-a-new-hard-drive/
Keep in mind this moves everything, including device drivers, and overwrites everything on the destination drive. You may want to physically move the disk to the new machine first to see if the OS will even boot and run that way - if it does you can decide to stay on the old disk, using the new one for your personal data, or restore the image to the new (likely faster) drive.
The obvious answer is to use some external USB media, but sometimes it's a good idea to pay someone to do that for you.
B1-66ER has the right answer but you'll probably have to reinstall most of your apps
What are your current and new computer OS?
Windows 10 to Windows 11.
You can use a USB hdd/ssd/thumb-drive to transfer your data and browser bookmarks.
That's unfortunate with LInux it's as easy as.....
rsync -ruv ~/ [OtherPC]:~/
robocopy probably has some similar option that is 900X more complicated and less functional but you'll have to read the docs.
powershell > robocopy /?
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