I concur with Christopher Bermingham (10 Apr 2007). I bought PCmover on 27 May 2005 and never could use it, because it requires too many and tight conditions to actually work in the real world:

- in most cases it will imply that you upgrade the HD on your new computer, since the old PC probably is bloated with plenty apps and data (if you afford the time to clean your old PC, then you have better migrate by hand than using an automated tool. I admit however that my old faithful laptop is particularly loaded since intensively used and never reinstalled since 1999: about 30GB used without any sound or video downloaded)
- it requires (in its User Guide) you to check that you update your PCmover and your Windows on both PCs just before trying to migrate: another condition that delays and slows the process; the worse being that Laplink doesn't show the version number of PCmover on its site, and you can't redownload to try, since Laplink limits the number of downloads
- it requires you have higher level of everything on the newer PC. Which is sometimes impossible, e.g. some components of MS .Net Framework fail to install on Win XP Pro while they do work on W2K.
- these conditions make you start using the new computer first, which at once renders the migration much more complicated and adds even more conditions, which enters you in a catch-22 where you go open and start the old PC and copy data and apps one at a time in a hurry when needed, and finally never can use your PCmover. Next time if ever I buy it again (which may happen nevertheless if they fix it), I will make sure I immediately buy a bigger HD and make at once the whole entire migration, before I do a single bit of work on that new PC. Laplink should only sell this product bundled with a new PC for one single use on the very first day, and with a double big warning of 1. having a big HD on the new PC and 2. not touching anything on it before migration.
- Laplink (but I wouldn't be too bad to them: this is just what most big software companies have become now, Laplink is no worse than others) doesn't understand what customers need or want, or what data reliability is (probably using products built by people no more in their staff), and can't properly handle the normal process of feedbacking, fixing, improving, in a word: maintaining the product.
- I hope this product gets improved however, but for now it can't really be used unless in very simple cases - where it would be therefore unnecessary.

Versailles, Thu 11 Oct 2007 19:19 +0200, edited Mon 22 Oct 2007 23:44 +0200

This product wouldn't even install correctly on my win2000 machine so I could transfer items to my new XP and then wouldn't execute it's own "wizard" to transfer files. The help files were useless to troubleshooting the error message the program's own install/transfer package was giving me. This program is suppose to save you time and effort in migrating to a new PC, not take longer and be a headache in itself. Again don't waste your time or money on this program.

Just LOAD the CD and Follow the instruction, You will Love it.

Before you buy, be sure that you understand the details buried in the user manual:
"PCmover is a total migration solution and will transfer ALL installed programs, files and settings from the old PC to the new PC. A selective migration IS NOT supported in this version. If there are any items that you do not want to migrate, then you will need to uninstall them from the old PC before you perform the migration. This includes the following:
* Programs or applications that you do not want to have on the new PC.
* Programs that are already on the new PC, especially if they are different versions than those on the old PC.
* Programs where there is a trial version on one of the PCs and a full version on the other. In this case, uninstall the trial version, regardless of whether it is on the new or old PC."
This Gotcha makes it almost as time consuming to transfer programs as it would be to just install them on the new machine.