fWindows Data Migration Tool

Casey Dahlin cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
Wed Apr 2 21:45:31 UTC 2008


Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> Microsoft's File and Settings transfer tool migrates:
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>    *
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>       Internet Explorer settings
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Good idea. Ditto firefox
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>    *
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>       Outlook Express settings and store
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>    *
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>       Outlook settings and store
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Difficult due to diversity of preferred mail clients among Fedora users. 
Evo is the sane default, but Tbird usage is still massive.
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>    *
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>       Dial-Up connections
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Do we care? Not hard to do either way.
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>    *
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>       Phone and modem options
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Simple enough.
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>    *
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>       Accessibility
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Might not be 1:1 here, but good faith effort could make this work
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>    *
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>       Screen saver selection
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Not likely :(
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>    *
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>       Fonts
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Can be done. Do we want to encourage copying the fonts from windows 
though? (The settings themselves are useless unless we go get the fonts 
which back them)
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>    *
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>       Folder options
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>    *
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>       Taskbar settings
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Not sure about the correspondence here
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>    *
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>       Mouse and keyboard settings
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Can do
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>    *
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>       Sounds settings
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Could get interesting. Fedora has always had a more sophisticated view 
of the sound devices than windows.
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>    *
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>       Regional options
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Simple, and a good thing to have.
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>    *
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>       Office settings
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Likely to be harder than its worth. OOo and MSOffice are always juuust 
different enough that they don't cooperate well.
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>    *
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>       Network drives and printers
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Not too hard.
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>    *
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>       Desktop folder
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>    *
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>       My Documents folder
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>    *
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>       My Pictures folder
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>    *
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>       Favorites folder
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>    *
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>       Cookies folder
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Gets back to the core "mirroring" aspect.
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>    *
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>       Common Office file types
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Not sure what this one means.


--CJD




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