Suppose you have bought a new PC with Windows XP and you want to move your files, documents, and settings from your old computer to this new computer. Or you are an administrator and you want to set up the office PC exactly the same, but you do not want to install all the files and settings for every computer and synchronize the settings. For these types of file and setting transfers, you can use the File and Settings Transfer Wizard. The big benefit of this tool is that it can transfer (most) of the application settings, because this utility is in a way aware of how the settings are saved on the old system and how they need to be stored on Windows XP. To give you an idea of which files and settings we are referring to, we list some of them that by default will be part of the transferable settings:

• Internet Explorer settings

• Outlook Express settings

• Network printers and drives

• Dial-up connections

• Regional settings

• Taskbar options

• Folder options

• Microsoft Office

• Desktop

• Documents

• My Documents

• My Pictures

• Shared Desktop

• Fonts

Before going through the wizard, we should first go through the basics of the files and settings transfer.