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File and settings transfer wizard So many people reinstall windows on a nearly monthly basis. Most people completely forget about a built in windows tool that is specifically designed to help you move all of your files and settings to your clean install of windows or a new system. This program is called the File and Settings Transfer Wizard.

The first option you have is to select if this is the new Computer or the old. The new computer option is the import wizard that you can use after you have gone through these steps.

The wizard scans quite a few things and prepares for the next steps.

Next up is to select how and where to save the data

Direct Cable means via serial port, which will be very, very slow. Use this at the risk of many very frustrating hours of waiting, since F.A.S.T. data (.dat) files can be very large.

The day of using floppies for this kind of transfer is a thing of the past unless you are doing a Custom Transfer and have selected a very limited amount of data. CD-Rs or CD-RWs, even when spanning multiple CDs, may have space limitations that a F.A.S.T. data file s size may make impractical, so I strongly suggest normally taking the third option, as shown below

This next step you have to choose what you would like to include in this backup. Most of us will only want to select settings only. If you select both files and settings you will want to check the box which allows you to select what file types to include in this backup.

After that's done it will start creating the backup archive which could possibly take quite a while.

When it is all done you will see a box telling you basically that it is done.

 

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