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Lap Link

squerly

squerly

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The monitor on my laptop died and I was faced with a repair bill of $250 or a new laptop, so I opted for a new laptop. But the old one has a ton of programs, data, pictures, doc's, a lot of downloaded software, all my Internet favorites, add on programs, etc... And all of this has to be moved over to the new machine, you know the drill. We've all done it several times and it always sucks, not to mention taking a day to get operational and another month to iron out all the associated irritations.

But I found this program called Lap Link which you can download from several locations (for as little as $29.00) which will copy all of your programs, data, etc. from the old machine to the new machine. I didn’t expect it to work “perfectly” but I thought if I got 75% it would be worth the money.

I was majorly impressed with this program. It’s dirt simple to use and the results were outstanding! I’m on the new machine right now and it’s a carbon copy of the old machine. First you download the software to the old machine, then to the new machine. Run Lap Link on the old machine first and follow the prompts. You will need an Ethernet cable to connect the two machines. Disable all anti-virus software, adjust the computers power settings to never sleep, and turn off the screen saver. That’s it.

It takes several hours for the transfer to complete but no big deal; I had to go to town anyway. When I got back the process was complete. The software will even email you to let you know it’s finished!

I’d recommend this program to anyone wanting to save themselves hours, days and weeks of tinkering with a new machine.
 
Lap Link has been around for a long long time. It used to be free, or it came with a motherboard I bought. A very good way to share data between puters. :thumb:
 
Doc said:
Lap Link has been around for a long long time. It used to be free, or it came with a motherboard I bought. A very good way to share data between puters. :thumb:
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That is a blast from the past, 1990 or so. I had no idea they were still around. We used it with a serial cable.

Jim
 
jim slagle said:
That is a blast from the past, 1990 or so. I had no idea they were still around. We used it with a serial cable.

Jim
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:yum: I did to. I had forgot about the serial cable part though. :bonk:
 
Doc said:
:yum: I did to. I had forgot about the serial cable part though. :bonk:
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How could you forget the serial port? I had several systems with 16 serial ports with a Vt-100 or a modem plugged in each port. Seems like one box had 32 ports.

Did you ever get this early morning error message?

"cereal port not responding, breakfast.com halted."
 
No. :yum: Never saw that message. You guys must've personalized it and made your own error message.
We sure had our issues with serial cables but no mention of breakfast.com. LOL
 
I remember that product as well. Your Windows has the same tool... for free.
 
squerly said:
It's a little late in the game to be telling me now don't ya think? You owe me $29.00... prick.

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He doesn't owe you squat! Now, maybe if you had asked first, instead of presuming you're the only one with ever happened
to and then running around throwing your money away ...





















:yum::yum::yum::yum::yum:
 
Danang Sailor said:
He doesn't owe you squat! Now, maybe if you had asked first, instead of presuming you're the only one with ever happened
to and then running around throwing your money away ...
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So here I am, offering up a public service message to help the downtrodden and non-computer literate FF members and I have to take this BS... I think you own me $29.00 too. :wink:
 
squerly said:
So here I am, offering up a public service message to help the downtrodden and non-computer literate FF members and I have to take this BS... I think you own me $29.00 too. :wink:
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I have an IT department (our son or his buddy) that takes care of these kinds of problems for me. Anytime I try to go it alone, it always seems to cost me money.:whistling::whistling: How's that $29 dose of pride taste?:brows::yum:
 
JEV said:
I have an IT department (our son or his buddy) that takes care of these kinds of problems for me. Anytime I try to go it alone, it always seems to cost me money.:whistling::whistling: How's that $29 dose of pride taste?:brows::yum:
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Fuck it, you owe me $29.00 now too for not having your Son help... :brows:
 
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