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Summary: Not even a last resort
Review: Save your money. Do anything else to xfer your files from old to new but don't waste your money on this farce. It seems it has no idea what an .EXE file is and it leaves them all behind, bottom line is this is a total waste of time and simply adds to the time it will take you to get your new computer the way you want it to be.
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Summary: OK but not great
Review: This did kind of what it said it would do. It moved many of my settings and preferences (but not all). It moved a whole bunch of data (more than I thought it would) but again not everything and it did this in a "deceiving" way. For example, it moved my TurboTax folders and some of the stuff in them but it did not move the prior years' return data (the only thing I needed). It would have been very easy for me to assume the stuff was there since the folders moved then only found it missing after I gave my old computer away.The biggest problem I found was that there was enough missing from the new computer that I spent a lot of time checking to make sure things were there and re-entering stuff like mail account settings and untransferd docs and data. It moved all my messages in Outlook Express but only the settings for one of 5 accounts I had set up. (Of cousre it only moved the one for which I know the settings off the top of my head.) It also only moved docs from one of the 4 user profiles on my old computer. If you just want to move your data and you do not have a huge amount, I suggest just burning CD's. This definetly made moving my 3 gigs more time consuming than just burning CD's. I could have done that in much less time than I spent setting this up, waiting for the transfer, checking to make sure everything was there and then entering what wasn't. If you're moving a lot more than I did, it may be worth it.
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Summary: Do Not Use this product
Review: This product trashed my new computer. I selected from intellimover's list only a few options for moving data, one of which was photos. The SW logic moved every .jpg, .bmp, and .gif file from the old to the new computer, which moved about 1GB of garbage, over 3000 gifs alone. Also, it created new folders and subfolders for all the "new" art. Thousands of tiny bits of art ("Welcome to your new (1997) Hewlett Packard"), scattered about hundreds of new folders and subfolders. My new Dell went from a clean machine to a cluttered mess in seconds! And to make matters worse, the only files I wanted, the photos, went to an obscure folder and my software couldn't find them! I had to move them all manually anyway. Also, it did not move my on-computer saved emails, my GPS map saved routes and areas, and a few other small items. For the hours of aggravated deleting I've had to do, 5-layers deep of folders with only 3 obsolete gifs in the bottom folder, I'd recommend avoiding this product and recording your data on a CD for manual transfer instead. I wish I had. It would have saved a lot of time and irritaion.
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Summary: Almost better than manual migration
Review: Ugh. This is a pretty stiff price to rent a program for one use. That's right -- the license "agreement", which you'll only find after unsealing the package and voiding your return rights, limits you to a single migration. Since the program must be activated via the company's website, there's no chance you can get around this restriction. To top it off, you'll have to reinstall all of your software on the new machine before you can migrate the "settings" from your old machine. By the time I was done doing that, I didn't save a whole lot of time compared to just reconfiguring the machine manually. I saved maybe an hour in an eight-hour session moving 30GB of data and reinstalling software. A lot of time was spent reconfiguring the things Intellimover missed, such as Outlook's rules wizard. My recommendation is to choose AlohaBob's PC Relocator instead -- that program moves applications as well as data, and there is no use limit. Like they say, owning is better than renting.
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