File transfer from Windows XP to Windows 7 Pro.

How can I transfer my old PC of Windows XP files to the new PC with Win7 Pro? I tried to install Windows Easy transfer on the old PC, but it won't let me install it and install on Windows XP file transfer doesn't transfer for Windows easy transfer. How can I transfer my old files?

See the following for instructions:

http://www.notebooks.com/2009/10/13/WinXP-to-Win7/

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How to organize and archive files

Allows you to do this by using the organizational tools built into Windows 7. The first place wherever I start looking at is my downloads folder since I do a lot of downloading.

In order to properly analyze what we can, keep and move to an external hard drive, we'll use the menu to change the view . Click on the menu to change the view, and then click details.

You will notice that your files are organized with more details. To further customize the view, click the Date Modified column header. This will allow us to view the files when they were used or last edited. Another column, I recommend that you post is the Date created column.

Right-click on the column heading, and then click on created.

This will give us a better idea of the age of the file and if its worth keeping.

Looking through my downloads folder, I have files going back to the beginning of 2007 and the last time that I accessed them were in 2007. Certainly not useful to keep on disk. If these files will be archived and moved to my external hard drive.

Archiving

Obviously, to do something like that, you're going to need an external hard drive. You could choose DVD as a backup method, but they can be unreliable and more a chore, especially with the permutation of the disc in question. Once you have identified the files you need to Archive, open your external hard drive and create a folder specially for these files called Archive.

Open it and then go back to the (window) folder where your old files are currently on your local hard drive. Select the files, and then click organize > copy

Return to the folder Archive (window) we have created on the external hard drive, and then click organize > then click Paste

Please wait while files are copied to. Once this done, go back to the folder and click on organize > delete or press Delete on your keyboard.

Simplify the file selection and copy

If you want to select files in a date range, just select the first file then click on any file within the range, see below:

Repeat these steps for the other records of the person such as Documents, music, photos and videos. When you are finished archiving, you can move to permanently delete these files from your bin if all are stored:

I was able to recover coupons 10 GB worth of disk space only from my only download folder.

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