Intellimover Transfer Your PC Deluxe

I bought Transfer Your PC, and it worked like a charm. No hassle whatsoever. You install the software on the two PCs and hook up the parallel cable and, presto!, you can see your old PC from your new PC. You just click a button and it sucks all of the data onto the new PC through the cable. I was pretty amazed at how easy it was.

My email, contacts, calendar, documents, MP3s, photos, files ... everything came over.

Transfer Your PC also includes a program to privacy protect your old computer before you sell it and another program to back up data on your new PC. I haven't used those yet but plan to.

Great software. Glad to be using my new PC and to be taking advantage of all the stuff I needed.


It just didn't work.   April 9, 2005
Inamorato (St. Paul, Minnesota USA)
42 out of 45 found this review helpful

zOne of the least enjoyable parts of getting a new PC is the migration of data from the old machine. Even though the hardware and software configurations of both my old and new PCs are not unusual or particularly complex, the idea of moving large quantities of data from numerous applications is odious. When I read about Intellimover Transfer Your PC Deluxe, I thought it would be just the thing to ease the transition to my new PC.

I didn't only read the quick set-up guide, but the entire product manual. I prepared both PCs according to the instructions including reinstalling my applications on the new machine. The product software installation, although a little slow, completed successfully on both devices.

When the Intellimover program called for connection of a cable between the PCs, I connected the supplied USB cable. The software indicated that there was no handshake between the boxes.
I did some troubleshooting including reinstalling the product twice since interrupting the migration requires a full reinstall on both PCs. I determined that USB cable was faulty. I called Nova Development Technical Support who, after going through their troubleshooting routine, confirmed that the cable was bad. Rather that send me another cable, they told me to return the product to Amazon. Amazon did a very quick turnaround and I soon had a new Intellimover package.

I reinstalled the software, got a good connection between the PCS, and started the data migration. Shortly afterward, the data transfer stopped and I lost the connection. More troubleshooting. More reinstalls. Back to Tech Support who did more troubleshooting and had me do reinstalls after deleting certain files. No change. More diagnostics. Tech Support said I had a bad USB port, then that there was driver conflict and that I should remove the printer and digital camera software from my PC. And then they bailed out.

I uninstalled the printer and camera apps and restarted the Intellimover installation. No change. I didn't waste any more time with Nova Development Support. The bad reviews on Amazon of a similar Aloha Bob product persuaded me to buy an external hard drive and transfer my data to and from it. Not elegant but it worked fine in about a quarter of the time I spent trying to get Intellimover to function.

Will it work for you? Maybe--it seems to work on some machines--but moving the data via an external drive or by connecting your PCs with an Ethernet cable is easy and, as with my experience with Intellimover, might save you a lot of time and irritation.



Instructions misleading   January 24, 2005
StAugBchBum (Florida)
13 out of 20 found this review helpful

Do not use this product if you intend to move data to a "new" computer that has an operating system older than the source system. I attempted to move data from an XP system to a Win98SE system and got an error message. No where on the packaging is there a warning to this effect.


Old 2 New   December 2, 2005
lord Voldermort
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

For years I have avoided purchasing a new computer. My entire life is stored on that old Windows 98 machine. I have year's worth of electronic records, receipts, and other personal files on that computer, not to mention all of the programs I have installed on it. Dragging my feet to the bitter end, I finally bought a new PC.
After researching file transferring software I decided on this application. It worked perfectly. It was easy to use and speedy! My old files and software now reside on my new P4 Windows XP computer.



Worked great   June 15, 2005
azazel
9 out of 11 found this review helpful

I bought this program with my new Dell. It worked great! it was effective and simple to use. If you get a new computer buy this product