what is the easiest most cost effective way to transfer my pertinent data from my old pc laptop to new pc laptop.Burn the data in the old laptop to CD/DVD.

Remove the old laptop HDD and get an external USB enclosure for it and hook it up to the new one.

Upload the data you need to a file storage site and then DLoad it to the new laptop.

Setup a Home Network that includes both machines and transfer the data you need.

Get a laptop to IDE converter and hook up the old drive and burn to CD/DVD and then transfer the files to the new machine.

As you can see there are a few options here...more inf on what data it is you need will help narrow things down a bit...music library WMP & I tunes,pictures,favorites, e-mail contacts,maybe a word perfect programA program cannot be copied and expected to run...
That being said i'd say options #1 and #3 are your easiest...Can anyone describe their first-hand experience with using Windows Easy Transfer program to set up a new computer? I have looked through the instruction once, but never needed to actually try it.

Microsoft has a couple of Help and Support articles about it. For XP there is Article ID: 293118
“How to use the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" in Windows XP” http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293118

Here is a quote from the article:
You can use the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" in Windows XP to transfer settings for Microsoft Internet Explorer and for Microsoft Outlook Express. You can also use this wizard to transfer desktop settings, display settings, dial-up connections, and other types of settings.

For Vista there is Article ID: 928634: “How to use Windows Easy Transfer to migrate files and settings from one Windows-based computer to another Windows Vista-based computer” http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928634
There may be other articles.

It sounds like it WOULD help transferring some of the tricky HIDDEN settings you don’t want to have to RECREATE by hand.
cannot be of any help but I am curious if this program came with your PC or was it a separate purchase?Quote from: PATIO on February 10, 2009, 06:23:25 PM

A program cannot be copied and expected to run...
That being said i'd say options #1 and #3 are your easiest...

Can anyone describe their first-hand experience with using Windows Easy Transfer program to set up a new computer? I have looked through the instruction once, but never needed to actually try it.