Review by GameMaker

I recently purchased a new PC from Dell, and I bought this software (from them) along with the computer. Owch, what a mistake, I should have read the reviews here first.

I had pretty low expectations/requirements from this software actually. Mainly I just wanted to move over my settings, email, and music. How about 0 for 3!nnFirstly, the software can only be used 1 time (owch!). That is their ridiculous licensing agreement. Second, you need to install it on both the machine you are moving from, and the machine your are moving to. Alright, so I’m moving from a windows xp machine to a windows vista machine. Surely that’s got to be the most common configuration these days right? Surely that’s the one thing that would work right? wrong. Firstly, the installation crashed on both machines. After downloading updates from the web, re-installing and uninstalling several times it finally seemed to install correctly.

Smooth sailing from there right? Nope. First, I tried to do the transfer over ethernet, since I have a home network and that is supposidly supported by this software. That didn’t work at all. So then I grudgingly tried a transfer over the cable that they provided. The software had a lot of trouble recognizing the cable, but after fiddling with that until it worked, I finally set up a transfer. Several hours later, my vista box had developed major problems, none of my email or bookmarks or anything had been transfered (only documents) and I was one cheesed off customer.

This software is completely (and I mean COMPLETELY) worthless. It’s a waste of your time, and a waste of your money. Believe me, the way to go is just to get an external hard drive and drag the files over you want to keep, or do it over your home network if you have one. You’ll save yourself a lot of time and a lot of headaches doing it that way, believe me, I wish I had.