From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: November 05, 2007
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: moving files from one computer
>
> Leo,
> Hi: I am considering replacing my computer with Windows XP to a new one
> with Vista. Am I going to have a problem transfering and opening my
> old files such as Word and Works. I have a lot of booklists, personal
> records, photos, and music files. Is there an easy way to transfer
> these files to the new computer. I have a Maxtor external harddrive
> that I have backed up my computer and use to store files that take a
> lot of memory such as photos and music. Sincerely Margaret G. Louk
You should be able to simply copy files to that external drive,
move it to the new computer, and copy them to wherever you want on
the new computer.
As long as you have Word and/or Works or another program on the new
machine that can read Word/Works files, you'll be fine.
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Thanks for asking,
Leo Notenboom
Article 11967
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