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Jeez, what a tedious couple of days. Got a new computer, spent the past two days transferring files. Finally got all of my pictures transferred, I'm now transferring almost 20GB's of music. I tried to get my email set up using Outlook 2010 but didn't realize that they already had a trial version installed, so whenI downloaded my Outlook on top of the trial version it corrupted the install, took me two hours to sort that out :x It'll take a while to get used to Windows 7, gotta get an updated scanner and printer now, too.
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Once you get used to it windows 7 is cool. A heck of a lot better than Vista. Congrats on the new system.
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I went from Windows XP to Windows 7, the colors are amazing compared to the old 32 bit set up
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i know what a pain it is to get a computer working right. mine is real close to being good as it was before. it takes forever for any windows to open in firefox or internet explorer.
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I got a new one because the power supply already died in my old P4 and I feared the dreaded crash wasn't far behind. I have pictures that are irreplaceable. My flatbed scanner is not Win7 compatible so hopefully there's a software fix available for that. Fortunately today I got everything transferred.
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You can use 32 or 64 bit on Win 7, but you probably already know that.
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I still cant get on this site from my new Dell, treats me as a guest even though I put in all my stuff. Called Dell help got New Delhi and couldnt under stand a word the guy was saying. Am on this one at work and I cant get any pics here. they are blocked because of it being a DOD comp. I think maybe my anti virus at home, which is Norton is blocking me.
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Yeah i did this about three weeks before you and am still transfering stuff. biggest problem is this one seperates stuff imported from stuff downloaded/installed directly to it.


so i have doubles of all my pics and music and so itunes plays everything twice. lol
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You shouldn't have any blockage problems with Norton. Strange though...
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rjewkes wrote:Yeah i did this about three weeks before you and am still transfering stuff. biggest problem is this one seperates stuff imported from stuff downloaded/installed directly to it.


so i have doubles of all my pics and music and so itunes plays everything twice. lol

I spent two solid days transferring stuff :doh:
I was ready to go postal on myself :lol:
I dragged my entire old iTunes folder and tossed it on top of my new iTunes folder using a transfer cable. It seems to have worked correctly.
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thats my problem going at it a few hours here and there before and after work, and manualy with a 4gb memmery stick instead of a transfer cable.

could be ie9 its a real nazi against anything deamed remotely unsafe even paypal is half disabled by ie9. even after oking the site. heck i have to use google chrome or apple safari to buy anything from star trek online.
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Re: New Computer

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Yeah, I knew I couldn't do the memory stick thing with all of my music. 6' transfer cable was $40 at Radio Shack :eek: but it was well worth the time it saved.
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