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Transferring Files and Settings from Your Old PC to Your New PC
You can copy the old PC files to the new PC using media such as CD or DVD discs, memory sticks, or personal media drives. You can also copy certain settings such as Web browser Favorites and address books using Microsoft’s Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.
For more information click Start, All Programs, and then Help and Support.
Search for transfer wizard, and select the overview article, “Files and Settings Transfer Wizard overview.” This information describes a Microsoft solution for moving your files onto your new PC.
Using Compaq Organize Software
Compaq Organize software (select models only) is a desktop tool you use to organize both your PC shortcuts and your favorite Internet destination links. You use it to organize the important things you do on the PC and the Internet and to arrange them the way you want. Compaq Organize makes all your information available with just a few mouse clicks.
Compaq Organize looks like a window with multiple category frames. Each category has links to Internet destinations or shortcuts to software programs or files on your PC. Use the player area for viewing pictures, for listening to your MP3 music files stored on your PC, or for watching video clips. For searching, there is a search bar at the top of Compaq Organize where you can select the search engine you want to use.
To open Compaq Organize:
1Click Start on the taskbar.
2Choose All Programs.
3Click Compaq Organize.
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