>I used the Windows Easy Transfer with the belkin cable from a windows xp to
>a
> windows vista laptop. It went through all the steps and at the end gave
> me a
> list of all the successful transfers and they were all there. But I never
> saw anything about choosing where to have the files transferred or where
> they
> were. Can anyone help me? I can't seem to find the files on my new
> computer.
> Easy Transfer should have copied the files and settings directly to the new
> computer without storing them anywhere. If you go to the laptop and log on
> they should be there, ready to use.
>
> Hm. Okay, thank you. I must have done something incorrectly because I
> thought they would be there like you said but they weren't.
>
> "Richard G. Harper" wrote:
>>> Easy Transfer should have copied the files and settings directly to the>
>> new
>> computer without storing them anywhere. If you go to the laptop and log
>> on
>> they should be there, ready to use.
>>
>
> What Richard meant, I think, was that the file would be in the same
> place where they started. If a file was originally in "C:\My Documents"
> on the the old computer, then Easy Transfer will put them into "C:\My
> Documents" on the new computer.
> When you started the EasyTransfer on the laptop it should have asked you
> which profile to apply the files to, and probably should have requested a
> logoff/logon to activate the "new" transferred settings - did it?
>
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> "lordior" <lordior@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:55ACF3BC-BA7E-4B4C-820D-10E5967EBFCC@microsoft.com...> > Hm. Okay, thank you. I must have done something incorrectly because I>
> > thought they would be there like you said but they weren't.
> >
> > "Richard G. Harper" wrote:
> >> >> Easy Transfer should have copied the files and settings directly to the> >
> >> new
> >> computer without storing them anywhere. If you go to the laptop and log
> >> on
> >> they should be there, ready to use.
> >>
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