Files And Settings Wizard Does Not Replace Files And Settings After Re Installat
Sep 29, 2009
Files and settings wizard does not replace files and settings after re installation. of XP. After several tries I got a copy of FASTconv, a command line program, to extract the files. It has been a long time since I used a command line and the command is complex. I have set the command follows........ fastconv /V /S:source store /D:destination store /T:temp store /I left out the /I switch so all files in the Dir source store would be extracted. Same thing happens when I put in /I switch.I named the Dir. source store, destination store and temp store. When I run it I get instructions on usage and a command prompt What am I missing?
I had my system running XP but it is now running Windows 7 and for the reason I backed my files up to a portable Hard Drive formatted as FAT32. Now when I try to use the Files And Settings Transfer Wizard it doesn't seem to recognize the files and says that they are not there.
I have XP Home Edition and have recently had to Reinstall completely.I did a backup of the files and settings back in October before my system went kaput and now would like to transfer them to my newly installed version of Windows.I have the properly named file on disk USMT2.UNC with the proper DAT and STATUS files inside but try as I might the wizard will not recognise the path to the folder and will therefore not copy them across.Can SKS suggest why this is please? I have tried copying the folder to desktop but same thing applies.
I've learned now heavily about the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. I've also learned about the USMT, which I've not yet used in practice, but learned the basics of in the .inf version. Studying that was how I was able to learn this deep into the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. Basically, the two have similar, but not exactly the same configuration.Now here I'll post the configuration for the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. I took what I found already there, and was adding features to it. I didn't create this from scratch, and it would've been silly to, as it's a configuration file.My issue is that whenever I'm saving settings, anytime I tell it to save something from HKEY_CURRENT_USER in the registry, it does not work. I was needing to know if anyone knows why, so I can correct it please.
I'm working on a computer running Win XP. We had previously installed a second, bigger hard drive, so she wouldnt lose any space on her c drive, which is only 9GB. Problem is, she's now down to about 147MB on the C drive, and we are afraid of a crash. Can I use the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard to move some of her programs to the bigger drive?? The new drive is 120 GB, and we want to just leave the operating system on the C drive, and move everything else. We have already run the disk cleanup wizard, emptied temp folders, and deleted unused programs (except for Quicken.it doesnt seem to want to uninstall.
I use the tool files and settings transfer wizard but when i restore the data on the new profile the office outlook settings are not copied. Any way for transfer the user office outlook settings from a profile to one another.
I have two eMachines both running Windows XP Home SP2 and would like to transfer some files from one to another. However, after I run Files and Settings Transfer Wizard on both computers, connect them with PC to PC serial cable and click AUTODETECT, both machine turn off.
I want to migrate data from my old computer (98) to my new computer (XP) via serial cable. To do that I need to create a "Wizard Disk" for my old computer. I'm trying to use "File and Settings Transfer Wizard" on my new computer to create the Wizard CD, but that program doesn't recognize my CD-RW/DVD drive (E. The dropdown list used to select the output device includes choices for only F, G, H, and I, my 8-in-1 media drives. How can I get it to write to my CD on drive E?
This is really a question more than a problem. I'm running a PC with 2 HDs. I am changing the boot drive C: for a larger disk. Now ordinarily I would use a backup program like Ghost or whatever. Now my situation is slightly different in that most of my startup programs are installed on my second HD E:, the C: drive being the boot drive with XP installed.
What my intention is. Is to take out drive E: Then replace that with my new drive. Then I was going to boot in Safe Mode and use the Windows Files & Transfer wizard to copy the C: drive to The new drive. The last thing to do then is swap the C: with the newly installed drive and replace the original E: drive. I hope that all makes sense.
CAN ACCESS OLD FILES BUT APPS & SETTINGS ARE CORRUPTED
HELP!! I went to install some VPN software on my desktop (Dell Dimension 2350; Windows XP; P4/2GHz; 1GB RAM) and the next thing you know, my OS won't boot. I think I corrupted my registry (again).
"Missing dll NWGINA.DLL. Either replace or contact your system administrator" is the error message that I gOt on a black screen after all attempts at reboot & startup: boot from Windows XP CD, fiddled around with CMOS a little, made every attempt to boot to Windows XP and came up empty.
I bought a new gateway and I want to get all my old stuff off my old hard drive. I bought a USB hard drive converter for my old hard drive and plugged it in to the new computer and I can access my old hard drive and I want to do a File and setting transfer with the wizard.
I get a phone call from someone who had the missing NTLDR message. THey said they were on the phone with microsoft for hours. The person outsourced told them to do another install of Windows to get in so they can back up their files. They tell him to install to Windows1 instead of Windows. I guess the smart outsourced agent thought this wouldn't delete any files since my friend told him he has some very important documents on this hard drive. So he installs another Windows and guess what, his documents and settings get overwritten. Looks like these guys really know what they're talking about since any Microsoft person should know this happens no matter where you install Windows
Alrite, ive got an emachines notebook running xp home on it. We bought it from best buy, and i guess they registered the computer to a 'valued customer' and its really annoying. Idk how the user name stuff works, but i think a while ago(not 100% positive cuz it was like 2 years ago) when we first got the computer i changed the admin 'valued customer' name to my name. but the 'my documents' folder defaulted to 'c:/documents and settings/valued customer' still. i fixed it by making a folder on c: with my name and made that folder the target location for the My Documents folder.
I found images in Windows Picture and Fax viewer that I want to delete. I can delete them one-by-one, but that takes time. I went to Disk Cleanup up and deleted all Temp and Temp internet files, but the images are still there. I checked Properties of the images for the file names, went to Win Explorer, but only found C:Documents and Settingsuser, there was no subfolder for Local Settings and, obviously nothing after that. I did a Search in Explorer, including hidden files and folders, for the file names and the searches resulted in nothing. I am back to deleting one-by-one, but my concern is, Where did everything from Local Settings on go to. BTW, I also run Skybot, Adaware and Norton virus weekly
When I started up it says Win.ini corrupt. Then it starts up as a new user losing track of Favorites and Start Menu and Desktop Icons, Display and Folder attributes. Under Documents and Settings it has added Dave.U5R2D5 in addition to Dave which still has all the information. I tried switching the 2 Filenames to get back to what it used to be but gave an error message and didn't do it and started another new file.Is there some way to use the old Dave file?
I was scanning my computer using spyware sweeper and i saw it scanning all these files that i hadn't put on my computer so i saw where that file was which was C://documentsandsettings/admin/Complete, so i got all the way to admin but there was no Complete folder! so i clicked show hidden files but it still wasnt there! i think its taking alot of my memory.
I'm having a major problem with XP Home Edition. When I start my computer, I get the Loading Settings screen, which automatically switches to the Saving Settings screen and then goes back to Loading Settings, Saving Settings, etc, etc, (the "Windows XP Startup" and "Windows XP Shutdown" sounds repeat themselves one right after the other). By the way, I have the XP tweak that skips the Welcome and log on screens at startup since I'm the only person that uses the computer. I've tried Debugging, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Restore To Last Working Settings and a few others, but nothing is working. I ran Spybot just before shutting down the computer the last time it worked and got the "Congratulations! Your system contains no spyware" message. When I restarted the computer, I started having this problem. I also have Norton Anti Virus 2004 and did a Live Update (manually) a few hours before this started happening.
I have an executable file on my desktop. When I move my mouse over it, it displays tooltip of ile(Description,File Version,Date created,size and company).Now when I replace this existing file with a new file with the same file name, but with different file version or description and move the mouse over it again, though the file is displayed, it doesn't display the correct file version even after multiple refresh is done.
when you copy a folder in Windows XP, the Confirm Folder Replace dialogue appears, which only gives you the option to replace files one at a time, replace them all, or opt out (No). How do you keep the old files in the folder and add the new ones that are not there already? For example, if I am backing up My Music folder and there is 7 GB of music sitting on my external hard drive, how can I add only the 200 MB of music files that have been added since the last time I backed up this folder? I remember this used to be possible in previous versions of windows. The dialogue in XP, the way it is set up, you have to replace all the files.
If a system file was acidently deleted, etc, can this file be replaced from a backup if I had previously performed a backup of all the windows/system files to another hard drive.This would be done using the xp backup tool that comes with windows.
My problem seems to be in this catagory. I'm trying to install a new AG board. When I get to Hardware Wizard Search and Install options, I type in C:Program (This is where I've downloaded drivers) an error msg. states that there is no device info in this location. I get the same response when I enter the file name. I've battled this driver problem for two days, from installation disk drivers not compatable, to not finding downloaded drivers. Any solutions would be greatly recieved.
I am currently on Windows XP sp1, home, and have been unsure about upgrading to sp2.
My ISP is ATT/Yahoo DSL and I have a wireless home network. My desktop connects directly to the router and the laptop connects via wireless. My printer which is connected to the desktop is also accessed by the laptop.
Will upgrading to sp2 affect any of my network or ISP settings? Not knowing how my network will be affected is what is keeping me from upgrading both the desktop and laptop.
My Windows instalation of 2000 has somehow gotten rid of my avail to use 16 and 32 bit color settings. I can not bring it back. 98 had it and now my view of some internet pages is horrible.
I have stopped some services running to speed up my computer but I have noticed recently it keeps reverting back to normal start up and I have to go through unchecking the services that are not needed again. It may be since I installed 'iplayer' from BBC website which uses the Kontiki p2p network. This uses a utility called k services and k host which runs in the startup. I disabled them as they connect to the network even when the program is shut down. How do I stop ms config reverting back to normal please?
Our wireless infrastructure is always changing and evolving so I was thinking on creating some kind of GPO that can be pushed to laptops and configure wireless settings that way. Is there a registry key that can be exported (from already configured laptop) that will contain all wireless settings? We have 2 different profiles we use through Windows Zero on XP SP2. This registry should have everything in there (ssid, keys, encryption, RADIUS and other possible settings for wireless)Please help. It is a great pain to type in keys and mess around with wireless settings most of my day.
I own two computers: a stationary with a lot of power, and a notebook with barely any power. Basically, I want to have my stationary do all of the thinking at home and just send my notebook audio and video of what's going on while allowing me to control it, at a low latency. I'd love to know how I could go about setting this up
How can i set the settings like, when in-game i want to play a sound straight from my PC, not putting my microphone near the headphones so they can hear it
I just recently upgraded my laptop to 2 gigs of ram. And it is working fine.What I was wondering is if there is a setting somewhere, to force windows to use as much of my ram as possible, before ever using the swap file? The reason I say this, is even though I now have so much Ram, windows is STILL swapping stuff out to my swap file.
