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Laplink’s PCmover migrates your Windows data & settings from 1 PC to another

laplink pcmoverPCmover by Laplink is a software migration utility that helps you move your programs, files and settings from your old PC to your new PC, and your old PC can be a WinXP box and your new PC can be a Windows 7 machine.

By now if you’re in the market for a new Windows PC, you should be thinking Windows 7, because Windows XP is nearing end-of-life, and you don’t want to be running a computer that never gets security updates.

There are multiple editions of PCmover, including the in-place PCmover Upgrade Assistant which will upgrade your 1 machine. To migrate data from 1 PC to another, you will need PCmover Home at a minimum. There is also an edition geared for netbooks.

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More info from the manufacturer
Price: PCmover Upgrade Assistant: $9.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

MSI Wind U110 Netbook has a 14-hour Battery Life

MSI continues to be a leader in the Netbook market, now with their MSI Wind U110 ECO. The #1 selling point is has to be its extensive battery life – this one claims over 14 hours! And all this is from a regular six cell battery.

The Wind U110 runs on a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 CPU, 1GB RAM and with Windows XP Home (in case you’re afraid of Windows 7 too). It sports a 10″ 1024×600 WSVGA screen on top of an Intel GMA500 graphics card, a 160GB SATA drive and weighs in at 3.2lbs.

It is 1.24” at its widest, the 10” LCD screen is backlit, it has a high-res web cam, double speakers, a built-in microphone and Bluetooth.

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Price: $394.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Microsoft Windows XP copies still available

As you know, Windows XP isn’t going to be around forever, and let’s face it, technology is constantly changing, so you may not want to run it forever. However, we can’t blame you if you don’t care for Vista, and who knows if Windows 7 will really be a ‘cure’? So while you’re waiting for W7, don’t wait to snag a last-minute copy of Windows XP. Home and Professional editions are still available right now.

CES 2009: CMS Products shows off latest backup software: BounceBack Ultimate

CMS Products introduced the latest version of their BounceBack product, called BounceBack Ultimate which has some very interesting new features. As a couple of sys admins, we were impressed by what BounceBack is able to do, mainly backup an entire Windows 2000/XP/Vista system to an external hard drive and then boot off of that drive without any need for the internal drive.

BounceBack can be set to run continuously and it can back up everything – files, OS files, even the BIOS. CMS has figured out how to backup even OS-level files while running. The backed-up system is bootable from that external hard drive regardless of hardware and/or BIOS.

Even Intel says no to Vista

As an IT guy myself, I do find it rather telling when a prominent business partner of Microsoft’s, Intel, has decided that they’re not going to ‘upgrade’ to Windows Vista. I can’t say that I blame them. The change isn’t compelling and according to most reports, more of a pain than a benefit.

For those home users buying a new computer, Vista isn’t an absolutely terrible thing to stomach, but for those power users who are now fully acclimatized to XP, Vista doesn’t offer them true advantages.

Windows XP SP3 Set to be Released

Microsoft says the third and final service pack for the aging Windows XP will be available for download on April 29th while manufacturers and larger customers currently have SP3 in house. SP3 will include all updates released since 2004 when SP2 was released. Here are some added features in SP3:

A feature called Network Access Protection
that’s borrowed from the newer Windows Vista operating system. NAP
automatically validates a computer’s health, ensuring that it’s free of
bugs and viruses before allowing it access to a network.

Windows XP SP3 also includes improved “black hole” router
detection — a feature that automatically detects routers that are
silently discarding packets. In XP SP3, the feature is turned on by
default, according to Microsoft.

Windows XP SP3 also steals a page from Vista’s product
activation model, meaning that product keys for each copy of the
operating system don’t need to be entered during setup. The feature
should prove popular with corporate IT managers, who often need to
oversee hundreds, or even thousands, of operating system installations.

When a Microsoft spokesperson was asked for the number of fixes in XP SP3, they responded “one billion fixes” while resting the pinky finger aside the mouth.

Source: Information Week

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