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0. Make sure Windows is activated on the new laptop.
1. Make an image backup of the new laptops hard drive.
2. Reinstall Windows from scratch on the new laptop (#1 is in case you have issues with this). This probably includes several loops thru Windows update. May have to get drivers from the Dell website.
3. Reload all software you need from scratch on the new laptop.
4. Copy over any files you need from the old laptop. Either by sharing the drive on the network or by pulling it and connecting to the new laptop (USB enclosure or something).
There are variations on every one of these steps so you can choose how you do each step. You can swap steps 3 and 4 if you want.
I’ve built three new PCs and migrated to them (me, wife, relative) in the past year or so. This seems to work best. A fresh start and no ad-ware left over from Dell.
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You could invest few bucks a month in cloud storage. It may cost you less than what you would pay for that cable. Then you could get to your files from anywhere - including your phone or other computers.
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I'll make a different recommendation-
In the last days of your old laptop's use, install OneDrive and move all your important data into that base folder, otherwise maintaining the directory structure you have been using, but now with the OneDrive folder as the base. Leave your computer on all night to sync with the cloud. Then upon opening your new laptop, again install OneDrive under the same name, go to bed and leave your new computer on all night. Come morning both computers will contain the same data files. The best of both worlds.
Apps? Carefully decide and re-install the ones you really need and use. Some you may have to first uninstall so that you may be allowed to install on the new laptop.
Keep the old laptop for a year. Sometimes there is a buried gem you need to go back and get.
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Why not just work from within a virtualized OS? All you need to do is copying the vm files to the new box. My setup is as this: A linux host and a bunch of virtualized OSes including Win10, Win7 and Raspbian OS.
Behzad
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I'm always ready to migrate. For any software installed on my machine (except for free stuff, which can be downloaded again), I archived the setups + serials in my personal folder, so I can install again on any new machine. And my personal folders (Documents, Desktop etc.) are not stored on the computer's drive but on an external USB drive. Although I must admit on a laptop it wouldn't be practical do always have an external USB drive connected. But in addition, I'm doing a differential backup of all relevant folders to a second external USB drive once a week using "FreeFileSync", so I could just take the backup and copy it over to a new laptop, if I ever bought one.
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in the Thanksgiving, I bought a Kindle reader for myself. after that, I ordered my first kindle book from Amazon.com.
I used the default target location "My Kindle Library" to send my kindle book and paid the money.
It turns out that on my Kindle reader, I can not open this book: the error message is saying "incompatible format".
Not sure how to fix this issue.
diligent hands rule....
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Call Amazon. I have downloaded loads of books to my Kindle and never had a problem.
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when I bought another new book and sent it to "my Kindle reader", then everything is good...
diligent hands rule....
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Redownload the first book. I've had this happen a couple of times over the years and the solution is to delete the book from your library and then redownload it.
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thank you! I will try your way
diligent hands rule....
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I had problems getting an eBook from my local library. Twice! Amazon was no help, but they spent time with me. I finally found the solution with a Google search.
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I'm in an unpleasant mood right now, or I was, and then this made me chuckle. I don't actually hate myself, and yet I found it relatable anyway because of my mood and because I am coding in C++ at the moment.
C++[^]
Real programmers use butterflies
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It's totally safe for work.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I just looked at it. This is okay. Safe for even elementary school.
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I can confirm it is safe.
I have already seen this before and, if I am not mistaken, was on the "Daily news" email.
Although, __spoilers__ would not be my first choice to put there to hate
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The reason you're in an unpleasant mood is because you're coding in C++.
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Or what about complex Java?..
When you declare a variable... The next line when you use the said variable
"This variable has not been declared..."
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So I wanted to print a lot of personalised labels. Set up the mail merge (using an Excel file for the data) and hit print. Then I remembered what happened last time I did this ...
(I should point out that I had to select the "Edit individual pages" option as there were a couple of funnies to sort out before printing e.g. one name was too long to fit the label so just needed to tweak it.)
So, I then get the "Some of your margins are very small. Would you like to carry on?" message. However, it then generated this for every page and I had to sit there clicking "Yes" 85 times before it would print.
Hrmmpphhhh.
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I have not had to do this, thankfully, for over 5 years now, if not more. After reading your post, it brought back fond memories of mail merge labels and envelops...not.
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Do you realize your thread topic is redundant: Word mail merge == stupidity.
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In 2018, thanks to the serendipitous presence of a colleague raving about ReactJs and React.Net, I discovered about IObservable.
I toyed with them and thought they might bring improvement to event handling...
Many years passed, not doing much, and now I am back on my pet long term take over the world home project.
And man, using IObservable and IAsyncEnumerable makes event handling, such as mouse dragging or even, how about get click count then continue on dragging hey? A breeze of fresh air. The code just look just as easy in C# as it would look in plain English. No state variable and multiple call back.. it's just all linear as you would say it! I am loving it!
I am kind of surprised to be in the select in known group. Shouldn't the cat be out the bag by now?
I guess nobody does desktop UI anymore these days...
Oh well, I keep at it in my secret basement lair, which happens to be on the first floor!
I just need a bit more energy to shake myself up, old age and woes and all that jazz...
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Super Lloyd wrote: old age and woes and all that jazz #MeToo, but I'm not so keen on jazz.
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You are also part of that other select group hey?!
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My Host (which is not GoDaddy) has just migrated us from cPanel to DirectAdmin
My new problem is E-Mail Forwarders.
I use them extensively to thwart degenerate spam (with very good results).
At this moment, I can't make sense of what DirectAdmin is doing with E-Mail Forwarders.
I looked for some video tutorials on this.
Everything I found was six years old with a user interface that is not what I have on my screen.
(Google does it again; oh well, at least it's consistent nowadays)
Anybody who can point me to an actual video tutorial that matches what I see on my screen will receive 37 quintillion tons of gold.
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