Windows 10: Transferred data from old computer to new, now old computer is stuck with a temporary user...

Someone brought me two laptops. The old one had Win 10 with a HDD. The new one had Win 11 and an m.2 drive. Both laptops were set up with the same Microsoft user account. This person wanted their personal data transferred from the old laptop to the new. I took the HDD out of the old one and used a USB to SATA adapter to connect it to the new one. I went to the user folder on the old drive. Windows wanted to add permissions to the folders before I could go any further so I let it. Then I used robocopy to copy the files from the old drive's user profile to the new drive's user profile. Afte

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How to transfer contact list, old mail, etc from my old computer to the new computer?

Original title: Laura

I just got a new computer with Windows 10 and successfully set up Windows Live Mail (as that is the mail program I like best). How can I transfer contact list, old mail, etc from my old computer to the new computer.

 

backing up old computer to new one

I purchased a new computer with Windows 10 and my current computer has Windows 7. I was considering putting the old hard drive into the new computer until I found a topic here where it wasn't suggested.

Users mentioned backing up the computer but there was no mention of software so I'm wondering what software do you use to transfer programs and documents from one computer to the next? Is the success transfer rate lower since it's transferring from a HP Windows 7 to a Cyberpower Windows 10 computer?

I have a WD external drive on the way large enough for a backup file to transfer to the new computer. Is there a free program that can be used? My new computer has a SSD which is new to me but I think I'll only upload the previous computer files to the main hard drive. One of my current external WD hard drives has a file labeled "Do your data recovery" but don't know anything about it and that drive doesn't have enough room to do a backup anyway.

 

transfer data from old computer to new computer

All our personal data should be stored in these 6 folders:

C:\Users\your user name\Desktop

C:\Users\your user name\Documents

C:\Users\your user name\Downloads

C:\Users\your user name\Music

C:\Users\your user name\Pictures

C:\Users\your user name\Videos

Step #1: Copy the above 6 folders to an external hard drive.

Step #2: Move the contents of these folders to the corresponding folders in your new computer.

That's all there is to do. Enjoy the new computer.