IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 |
Hi and welcome to Migrating from Windows 7
to Windows 8, I'm David Rivers.
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If you're still running Windows 7, it
might be time to consider a migration to
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Windows 8.
In this course, I'll show you everything
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you need to know to migrate smoothly and
efficiently from Windows 7 to Windows 8.
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I will begin by showing you how to prepare
for the migration in Window 7, by checking
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to see if your computer is ready enable to
run Windows 8.
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We'll look at backing up your important
files and using Windows easy transfer to
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simply the migration of your files and
your settings.
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Then, we'll walk through the Windows 8
installation steps, exploring various
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installation options, such as, installing
on a separate partition, or replacing
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Windows 7 altogether with Windows 8.
Once Windows 8 is installed, we'll explore
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using Disk Cleanup to remove temporary
files, and we'll explore options for
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connecting your peripheral devices and
drivers.
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So, if your ready to migrate from Windows
7 to Windows 8 let's get started.
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| System requirements| 00:00 |
Most people considering a migration from
Windows 7 to Windows 8 will likely be
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installing Windows 8 on the same computer
that's currently running Windows 7.
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It could be side by side with Windows 7,
or Windows 8 might totally replace Windows 7.
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Whatever the case may be, you'll want to
ensure the computer is capable of running
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Windows 8.
So, we're going to explore system
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requirements for running Windows 8.
We'll also look at some additional
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requirements and ways to find out if your
computer is compatible, but let's begin
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with the system requirements and your
processor.
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It needs to be quite quick, at least a
GHz, preferably faster to run efficiently.
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And it needs to support three features,
PAE, NX, and SSE2.
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These three features of your processor are
necessary for using expanded memory, and
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protecting your computer from malicious
software and other security issues.
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Also you going to need some memory, Random
Access Memory, sometimes called virtual memory.
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If you're on a 32 bit machine, you'll need
a GB minimum, 2 GB if you are on a 62 bit system.
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I'll show you in a moment how to determine
whether your computer is using a 32 bit or
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64 bit processor.
You're also going to need some space on
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your hard drive.
You'll need at least 16 GB on a 32-bit
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system, and 20 GB on a 64-bit system.
Again, these are minimums.
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You'll need more space if you plan on
installing any other software, or even
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creating and storing files on that hard
drive.
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And there are some special effects in
Windows 8.
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You'll need a decent graphics card,
Microsoft DirectX 9 with WDDM driver in fact.
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Without that, you won't be able to see the
special effects in Windows 8.
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In fact, you might not be able to see
anything at all.
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Alright, let's flip over to our Windows 7
machine and take a look at our system
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information to see if it's compatible with
Windows 8.
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First thing we'll do is go down to the
Start button, and in the search field,
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start to type the word, system.
Sys should be enough, and in the programs
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group, somewhere in here, you'll find
system information.
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Mine happens to be at the top.
That's what we want to click, system
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information, and by default, you'll see
system summary is highlighted.
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Now, over here on the right, we have some
important information.
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For example, you can see what version of
Windows you're currently running.
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Mine is Windows 7 Professional.
A little further down, you're going to see
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your system manufacturer and model.
But more importantly, the system type.
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If you see x86 in there anywhere, odds are
every good that you're running a 32-bit system.
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Now, I know it's not always the case, but
typically it will indicate a 32-bit processor.
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Now, if you really need to be sure, you
can contact your manufacturer, or at least
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the documentation provided by your
manufacturer.
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A little further down, some other
information that's kind of important to us
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if we're considering a migration to
Windows 8, and that's the virtual memory.
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There is physical memory, but a little
further down is where I am going to find
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out what my random access or virtual
memory is.
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Looks like 2 GB here which is plenty to
run Windows 8.
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Alright, there's another Option for
getting our system requirements as well.
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Let's just close up this window and launch
our browser.
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Mine's Internet Explorer.
We'll go to the microsoft.com homepage.
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Now, although this homepage changes
regularly, and yours is going to look
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different than mine, you should be able to
find the search field here somewhere.
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And clicking in there is going to allow us
to type in the following: upgrade, not
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advisor assistant and pressEenter on your
keyboard.
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Now, you should find one matching result
that will give us what we want here at the
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top, upgrade to Windows 8.
You can see talks about the upgrade
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assistant inside there.
I'm going to give it a click, and from
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here, you'll notice a button to download
something called the upgrade assistant.
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Now, if you're wondering what it is, you
can actually scroll down here to read a
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little bit about what the upgrade
assistant will actually do for you.
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It does scan your hardware, your apps, any
devices that are connected as well.
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And as you can see here, some of those
system requirements we just talked about
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are available in this information as well.
You get a compatibility report.
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It will generally work with the same apps
and devices that you are using in your
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Window 7 environment, but in some cases a
product might need an update and you will
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get that information as well.
And a little further down is were you can
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check out to see if your PC is ready to
upgrade.
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There is also system requirements we've
been talking about, also some information
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about the upgrade assistant touch.
Can I upgrade from a 32 bit version to a
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64 bit version on Windows 8, that's
something that you might be thinking about
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doing, you can find out by clicking this
link, if it's possible.
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Alright.
So, a lot of information here, but really
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what we want to do is get the Upgrade
Assistant and as we scroll back to the top
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you can see a button to Download the
Upgrade Assistant.
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Now, if you want to go ahead and do this
now you can.
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Click the button and click Run, and you'll
be downloading the assistant, which we're
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going to actually look at in chapter two.
So, I'm going to save that for then, but
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you can go ahead and run that if you
wanted to.
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Alright, I'm going to close this up, and
we're going to return to our bullet points
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here, because there are some additional
requirements that you might want to
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consider if you're going to be going to
Windows 8.
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For example, Windows 8 is what we call
touch-compatible, and that means, you
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don't need a mouse, not even a keyboard.
If you have a tablet or a monitor that
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supports Multitouch, you're good to go.
So, if you want to take advantage of the
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touch functionality, you'll need either or
both of those options.
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Also, there are some special effects I
mentioned earlier.
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One of them's called snap.
It allows you to snap windows into
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sections of your screen.
It's a great way to stay organized.
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Notice what we need for a screen
resolution here.
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And, also if you want to take advantage of
the Windows store, where you can download
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apps and so on of course, you're going to
need an internet connection.
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But also the screen resolution on your
monitor needs to be set to at least 1024
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by 768.
Also you might consider a Microsoft
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account, it's free, but it does give you
access to all kinds of additional features.
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I think about SkyDrive or cloud computing
for example.
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With your Microsoft account, you'll be
able to store files be in your SkyDrive
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folder, which is free storage space in the
cloud, allowing you to access your files
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from anywhere on any device.
So, think about signing up with a
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Microsoft account if you don't already
have one, like a Hotmail account for example.
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That allows you to log into Windows and
have access to these special features.
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So, that's the first step in migrating
from Windows 7 to Windows 8.
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If you find that your computer is
compatible, it's time to consider a
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migration path, and we'll talk about that
next.
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| Determining the best migration path for you| 00:00 |
Once you've decided your migrating from
Windows 7 to Windows 8, its time to choose
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the right Migration path.
There are different scenarios that we're
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going discuss now beginning with scenario
number one.
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Which is to simply go out and buy a brand
new computer, with Windows 8 already installed.
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This is of course the easiest way to
migrate but it's also the most expensive option.
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Also your going to need to install all of
the applications you're used to using in a
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Windows 7 environment on your new Windows
8 computer.
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This means digging up those CDs and DVDs
and remembering product keys and serial
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numbers and so on.
Then you'll also want to transfer all of
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your files that you've been working with
to your Windows 8 computer.
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There's something called Windows Easy
Transfer to help you with that.
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And we will be exploring it in detail
later on.
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Alright, onto scenario number 2, which is
to install Windows 8 alongside Windows 7.
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Giving you an opportunity to try out
Windows 8, while still having access to
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your Windows 7 environment.
This means creating a brand new partition
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on your hard drive first.
And once you have that new partition,
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install Windows 8 there.
Again you'll need to install all of the
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applications you want to use and transfer
all of your files from Windows 7 to the
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new Windows 8 partition.
And again Windows Easy Transfer can help
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you with that.
There's a third scenario which is probably
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the most popular scenario, and that is to
simply upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8.
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There's an upgrade version of Windows 8
available.
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It replaces Windows 7 with Windows 8.
And it lets you keep your personal files,
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your applications and your Windows
settings.
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So, you don't need to transfer any of that
stuff.
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Just keep in mind you won't have Windows
7.
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You'll be in the new Windows 8 environment
working with all of your personal files
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and programs and old Windows' settings.
So there is another scenario, and that's
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scenario number four, which is to install
Windows 8 over Windows 7.
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Creates a clean installation replacing
Windows 7 with Windows 8, but you'll have
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the full version of Windows 8.
You'll need to run Easy Transfer in the
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Windows 7 environment first to actually
store your files and settings.
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And then once you install Windows 8 over
Windows 7, you'll then install your
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applications and run Easy Transfer in the
Windows 8 environment again.
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But this time to restore your files and
settings.
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So those are four scenarios to consider
when migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 8.
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You'll need to choose the migration path
that suits your needs best.
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1. Pre-Installation Tasks on Your Windows 7 PCBacking up your files| 00:00 |
Whether you're going to be upgrading
directly from Windows 7 to Windows 8.
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Or creating a fresh installed Windows 8 on
top of Windows 7.
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It's a good idea to backup your files and
settings here in Windows 7 first.
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That way if something does go wrong, you
make a wrong choice, you can always revert
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back to your Windows 7 environment and
still have your files and settings.
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So we're going to look at backup by
clicking the Start button in the bottom
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left corner.
The flashing cursor in the Search field is
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where we're going to type backup.
And you'll notice right at the top under
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Programs, Backup and Restore.
So we'll give that a click.
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Now if it's your first time running
backup, your screen's going to look a
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little bit different than mine.
You'll have these options down the left
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hand side for creating system images and
repair disks.
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But over here on the right-hand side,
you'll probably see a button that says set
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up backup, that's if you've never done it
before.
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The first time you set it up you'll have a
number of options to choose from and then
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going forward you'll use those settings or
options.
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Go ahead and click that button if that's
what you're seeing and I'm going to click
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Change settings.
If you have run backup before, you can
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click Change settings at any time to go
back to the screen that allows you to set
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up how you want to backup your computer.
So the first step in this wizard driven
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program is to choose where you want to
save your backup file to.
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Your list will probably look different
than mine.
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I have a DVD drive.
If I had a DVD in the drive, I would see
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how much free space, for example, I have
on that drive to back up my files.
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I also have a removable drive a USB drive
plugged in, so I have that option I am
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going to select it.
With that selected you will notice a
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message down below that other people might
be able to access your back up on this
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type of a location.
Also if you are connected to a network,
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you could choose to back up to that
network drive.
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I am not so clicking this is not going to
give me any options.
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All right, once you've made your selection
click Next and now it's time to choose
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whether or not Windows is going to select
what's going to be backed up.
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Data files, all your libraries like
documents, pictures, videos, music,
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anything on your desktop or in any default
Windows folders, that is the default.
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But if you prefer to have control, click
Let me choose and click Next.
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That way you will see the defaults for
example Dave River's Library should be
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clicked off.
You would see your own library checked off.
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But if you want to go down there you know
you don't have any video files, you can
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deselect that check box and you are not
worried about additional locations.
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You can see the desktop is one of those
locations, saved games, etcetera.
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You can deselect any of the check boxes
you want, expand and collapse with these
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little arrows.
You can also expand your computer if you
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want to go through the various files.
You'll notice you can select from anything
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on your hard drive.
I'm going to make sure that it's collapsed.
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And I'm going to click to select and click
to deselect to make sure nothing is
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selected on my Local Disk.
So all I'm really backing up here is data
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for newly created users and if I expand
this here under my own Libraries, my Documents.
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That includes any subfolders and any files
in those folders, as well as My Music and
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Pictures libraries.
I'm going to click Next.
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This is a review now of, where i'm backing
up to, and what's going to be backed up
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and what is not going to be backed up.
If i'm happy with that, I can go down to
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Save settings and exit.
And then I will run the back up, if this
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it's your first time, you would actually
run the back up.
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I can also change schedule, you might see
a default of every Sunday at 7 p.m for example.
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But clicking Change schedule allows you do
deselect the run backup on a schedule.
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We don't really need to run it on a
regular schedule, we just want to run it
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this one time.
In case something goes wrong during the
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installation of Windows 8, so we can go
back and restore these files.
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So you can deselect that check box if
you're not interested in a regular
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schedule and click OK, then Save settings
and exit.
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It's going to save those and potentially
run the back up if it's your first time.
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Going forward, you just click Backup Now
to run that backup.
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So anything that's changed since the last
backup will be updated in that location.
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As you can see, there's a progress bar
across the top showing you how far along
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in the backup progress you are.
Depends on the number of files,and the
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types of files, the size of those files
and folders, but it could take several
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minutes or be quick like mine.
So there's the results, and when I know I
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have my backup, I might want to remove my
external drive and store it in a safe
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location, close this window up, and I know
I'm safe to start the installation process.
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Now as far as copying files and settings
that you want to move to your new Windows
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environment, there are different options
for that.
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We'll talk about the Upgrade Assistant in
the next movie.
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| Checking your PC with Upgrade Assistant| 00:00 |
In the previous chapter when looking at
system requirements for running Windows 8
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we touched on the Upgrade Assistant.
That feature allows us to discover whether
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our computer will be compatible and able
to run Windows 8, but it does a whole lot more.
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So, we're going to look at it in greater
detail now.
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Lets go to our default browser, mine's
Internet Explorer down here, on the Task bar.
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And we'll go to the microsoft.com
homepage, now although this page is always changing.
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You should be able to find a Search field
on this page where you can click and type
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upgrade asstiance, and press Enter.
This will give us some search results
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where we can get more information about
upgrading to Windows 8.
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More information about the Upgrade
Assistant, but either of these will help
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take us to links that allow us to run the
Upgrade Assistant.
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So let's go to upgrade to Windows 8 right
here.
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There it is, Download Upgrade Assistant,
give that a click.
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And now all we have to do is click Run and
then Run again to download and start using
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the Upgrade Assistant.
You may need (SOUND) to confirm a little
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message here allowing permission to let
this program make changes to the computer.
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We'll click Yes.
And you can see now it starts to run right
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here on top of our browser.
All right, so it might take a few seconds
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or a few minutes, but what's going to
happen is the Upgrade Assistant will
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analyze your computer.
You can see what's happening here.
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I have a message indicating 13 of my apps
and devices are compatible.
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I have a couple of items to review.
And if you want a detailed list of what's
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going on, click See compatibility details.
There's my two issues or potential issues.
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I'll need to install an app to play DVDs
once I have Windows 8.
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My DVD player is not compatible with
anything in Windows 8, so I'll need a
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separate app.
Also, something called Secure Boot isn't
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compatible with my PC.
The firmware built into my PC won't
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support it, no big issue.
I still be able to use all of the other
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cool features of Windows 8 and as I scroll
down you can see it's compatible with a
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lot of the stuff I have installed.
Both software and hardware.
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If I want to print this out I can keep
that list.
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I could Save it so I have a file with this
list of compatibility details or simply
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Close this up.
Now I'm ready to move on to the next step.
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And clicking that allows me to choose what
it is I want to keep.
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If I'm going to be upgrading, simply
replacing Windows 7 with Windows 8.
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I'll probably want all of my Windows
settings, my personal files and my apps to
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come along with me during the migration.
Maybe I'm just interested in the files,
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not the apps, and some of the settings, or
nothing at all.
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I might select that one if I was
installing, for example, Windows 8 on a
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separate partition, something we'll talk
about a little bit later.
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When you click Next, you'll then be
prompted to choose from a couple of
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different options.
Now, depending on your choices, you may or
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may not see both of these options, and an
order button to order Windows 8 or Windows
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8 Pro.
Wondering what the differences are?
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You can click Compare additions, takes you
back to your browser, here.
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Where you can actually scroll down and
look at the differences here.
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So as you can see, with our upgrade
version of Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro
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over here on the right.
Get a few extra options, for example,
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enhanced data protection with BitLocker.
If that's something you need, you'd need
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to go with Windows 8 Pro.
Hosting a remote desktop connection you
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can only do with Pro as well.
And if you need to connect to corporate or
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school networks using domain join, you
will also need Windows 8 Pro.
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All right let's just minimize our browser.
It takes us back to the upgrade assistant
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where we can make our selection.
I want Windows 8 Pro, so I click order,
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and now you can see total price and the
size of my digital download that I'm about
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to download to my computer before I can
install it.
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And, you'll also see this little check box
for Windows DVD.
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If you prefer to install from a DVD, you
can click this check box.
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That way you don't have to have a DVD sent
to you or buy a boxed version.
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What you'll end up with is the ability to
burn your own Windows installation DVD.
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Then it's time to check out, and clicking
that is going to prompt you for some
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information, obviously.
If you're making a purchase, you'll need
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to provide some personal information.
And you'll also be prompted for some
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financial information, such as credit card
information on screens to come.
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Now if you're ready to go ahead and do
that you can, but we've got all the
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information we wanted from upgrade
assistant.
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We don't need to go ahead and purchase
Windows 8 at this time.
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We can simply close this up.
At least now we know, when we click Yes,
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that we're able to run Windows 8 on this
machine.
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And some of the options that we'll have at
our disposal when we go ahead and do the upgrade.
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Or if we need to do a separate
installation, we can continue to use the
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Upgrade Assistant for that as well.
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| Using Easy Transfer to store files and settings| 00:00 |
When upgrading directly from Windows 7 to
Windows 8, we can use the Upgrade
| | 00:04 |
Assistant to transfer files, settings,
even apps.
| | 00:07 |
But what if you're not going to be
upgrading directly from Windows 7 to
| | 00:10 |
Windows 8?
Maybe you're going to run a clean
| | 00:13 |
installation of Windows 8 on the same
computer, but in a different partition.
| | 00:18 |
So, you can run Windows 7 side by side
with Windows 8, or maybe your Windows 8
| | 00:21 |
installation will be on a new computer.
When those scenarios, we need to use
| | 00:26 |
something else to transfer files and
setting, it's called Windows easy transfer.
| | 00:31 |
We're going to take a look at it now.
Here in a Windows environment, clicking
| | 00:34 |
the Start button in the bottom left
corner, allows us to type in the search
| | 00:37 |
field, where our cursor is flashing, the
word "easy" to display.
| | 00:42 |
There it is right at the top, Windows easy
transfer.
| | 00:45 |
We'll give it a click.
on the welcome screen, you can see the
| | 00:48 |
types of content we can transfer using
windows transfer.
| | 00:52 |
User accounts,all of our libraries,
documents, music, pictures, e-mail and
| | 00:57 |
internet favorites, and more.
So, let's click next to move to the very
| | 01:01 |
first step, which is to choose what we
want to use to transfer items to our new
| | 01:05 |
Windows 8 installation.
And also I didn't say new computer,
| | 01:09 |
because it can be on the same computer.
If it is a different computer though, you
| | 01:13 |
can use an easy transfer cable.
That piece of hardware plugs into both
| | 01:17 |
computers, and your files and settings get
transferred from Windows 7 to Windows 8
| | 01:21 |
nice and easy.
But if you're going to be using the same
| | 01:26 |
computer with a clean installation of
Windows 8 or maybe on a separate
| | 01:28 |
partition, you might use one of the other
two Options.
| | 01:32 |
If you're connected to a network, you can
transfer your file, settings and so on to
| | 01:37 |
a single easy transfer file which will be
located on the network location you choose.
| | 01:43 |
Or you could use an external hard drive or
USB flash drive, and again, everything
| | 01:47 |
will be stored in a single file that you
could then retrieve once you've install
| | 01:51 |
Windows 8.
And again, you'll use Windows easy
| | 01:55 |
transfer when you get to Windows 8.
I'm going to go with this third Option,
| | 01:59 |
give it a click and now we're on to
selecting the computer that we're using now.
| | 02:03 |
Is this your old Windows 7 computer or
your new Windows 8 computer?
| | 02:08 |
Once we get to Windows 8, we'll be able to
use the new computer Option to get our
| | 02:11 |
files back.
But for now, we need to get them off of
| | 02:15 |
our Windows 7 computer.
This is my old computer, is the selection
| | 02:19 |
we make, and the scan begins.
It's just going to scan through your account.
| | 02:24 |
It's going to find all of your libraries,
all of the different files and settings.
| | 02:28 |
There will be certain defaults selected
for you, but you can customize those.
| | 02:33 |
Notice also, any shared items will also be
scanned and included to be transferred
| | 02:37 |
using Windows Easy Transfer.
Again, totally customizable.
| | 02:42 |
So, depending on how many files, folders,
accounts, etcetera, you have, the size of
| | 02:46 |
the files, this could take several
minutes.
| | 02:49 |
So, we'll give it a couple minutes to
finish the scan and we'll resume once we
| | 02:53 |
see the results of those two scans.
Alright, here we go.
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You can see that we have actually almost
300 megabytes in my account, and under
| | 03:03 |
Shared Items an additional 70.
That's not very much at all, you will
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probably see a whole lot more if you've
been using your computer for any length of time.
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Now, notice the check marks next to each,
they're both included in Windows Easy
| | 03:16 |
Transfer if we were to click Next.
If you're not too concerned about Shared
| | 03:20 |
items, you could deselect the check box.
Or maybe there's only certain shared items
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you are concerned about, leave it checked,
but go to Customize.
| | 03:28 |
Notice all of the different Options here:
public documents, music, pictures,
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etcetera, even Windows settings.
There's also an advanced Option where you
| | 03:37 |
can be very picky and go through the
different folders and subfolders, picking
| | 03:41 |
and choosing exactly what you want and
what you do not want be deselecting.
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Then you can click Save.
You'll see the size actually go down.
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Same thing for your own account.
You can customize that as well.
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Here's an advanced Option for picking and
choosing the sub-folders, for example,
| | 03:58 |
that you do or do not need.
I'm going to actually remove the
| | 04:04 |
check-mark next to Shared Items.
I don't need any of those.
| | 04:07 |
I'm going to keep my customized selection
under my account, and click Next.
| | 04:12 |
Now, you can click save.
Or if you're a little concerned about your
| | 04:15 |
Windows Easy Transfer file going to an
external drive like we just selected,
| | 04:19 |
getting into the wrong hands, you can
password protect that file.
| | 04:24 |
So, anyone trying to get access to it
would need to know the password.
| | 04:27 |
Go ahead and type in a password.
You don't see what you are typing, so, you
| | 04:31 |
need to confirm it by typing it again,
down below.
| | 04:35 |
And now when you click Save, you're about
to save the file with the password to the
| | 04:39 |
location of your choosing.
I am going to go with a removable drive here.
| | 04:44 |
Notice that the name is going to be very
self explanatory, Windows Easy transfer
| | 04:48 |
items from old computer.
I'm going to click Open to open up that
| | 04:52 |
location, there's nothing there.
It's going to be saved to my external
| | 04:56 |
drive, my removable disk, when I click
Save.
| | 05:01 |
So, now I just have to sit back and let it
save to that location.
| | 05:06 |
In the end, I will have a Windows Easy
Transfer file on my external drive that I
| | 05:10 |
could then take to my new Windows 8
installation.
| | 05:15 |
That hasn't happened yet, well, I'll have
to install Windows 8, and from Windows 8
| | 05:18 |
using easy transfer to get those files and
settings back.
| | 05:23 |
We'll definitely be doing that a little
bit later on.
| | 05:26 |
So, once again, depending on the number of
folders and the number of files, the size
| | 05:31 |
of those files in those folders, this
could take seconds to minutes to even hours.
| | 05:37 |
Eventually though, you'll see a check mark
next to the Options you chose.
| | 05:40 |
You can see the save is complete, and we
can click the Next button.
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This takes us to a review of exactly what
happened.
| | 05:48 |
Our transfer file is complete.
We'll open Windows Easy Transfer on the
| | 05:52 |
new computer.
In other words, once we've installed
| | 05:55 |
Windows 8, we'll run easy transfer again.
We'll locate the file that was placed on
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our external drive, and if you need to you
can write down the location.
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For example, if you chose a network
location, that might be important to
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remember where you stored that file.
Once you've read the review click Next and
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that is the end.
So, we can continue now with the transfer
| | 06:15 |
process on the new computer, we can
continue to work on our existing computer.
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Now we're able to since the easy transfer
is complete.
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Click close and your ready to continue.
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2. Installing Windows 8Creating a new partition for Windows 8| 00:00 |
Not everyone is ready to fully commit to
replacing Windows 7 with Windows 8.
| | 00:04 |
Wouldn't it be nice if you could try it
out for a while, while keeping Windows 7.
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Well, it is an option.
If your computer has more than one hard
| | 00:12 |
drive, you can install Windows 8 on a
separate hard drive for example.
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If you only have one hard drive
though,you'll need to create a separate
| | 00:19 |
partition for your Windows 8 installation.
That's what we're going to talk about
| | 00:24 |
right now.
The first step is to find out what you do
| | 00:27 |
have and what you have to work with.
So let's go down to our Start button, give
| | 00:31 |
it a click and in the search field where
the cursors flashing, we'll type in Disk
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leave a space and start to type
Management.
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That gives us a link to Create and Format
Hard Disk Partitions give that a click.
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It actually opens up Disk Management.
This is a window I like to maximize, I'm
| | 00:48 |
going to click the Maximize button so I
can see everything and at the top you'll
| | 00:51 |
your volumes.
I have a drive C and a drive E.
| | 00:56 |
Drive C as I go across you can see uses
the NTFS file system, the NT file system.
| | 01:03 |
And you can see the Capacity is 60
gigabytes.
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It looks like over 50 of those are free
representing 85%.
| | 01:10 |
I've lost a room to install Windows 8 side
by side.
| | 01:12 |
But as I move a little further down and
look at the physical drive labeled Disk 0,
| | 01:17 |
my 60 gigabyte hard drive.
It is fully allocated to drive C.
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That blue bar going all the way across
represents that I have no unallocated space.
| | 01:29 |
So although I have a lot of free space,
none of that free space is available to me
| | 01:33 |
to install Windows 8.
I need to first shrink down this volume,
| | 01:37 |
and create the separate partition from
that newly unallocated space I'm going to
| | 01:41 |
be creating.
So, to shrink down the volume.
| | 01:45 |
We could go to the Action menu up at the
top or simply right-click the blue bar,
| | 01:49 |
and choose Shrink Volume from there.
Now we'll take a moment to take a look at
| | 01:55 |
your hard drive to see how much room there
is, to shrink down.
| | 01:59 |
We might think 50 some gigabyte looking at
this 85% free.
| | 02:03 |
But that's not always the case some files
are not movable and there spread out
| | 02:07 |
around the hard drive.
So, as you can see I actually only have
| | 02:12 |
about 28 gigabytes of room for shrinking
down and creating my new partition.
| | 02:17 |
By default, it's going to be the same size
as what's available.
| | 02:21 |
You may recall from our system
requirements section that we need at least
| | 02:25 |
16 gigabytes on a 32 bit system for
Windows 8.
| | 02:29 |
We'll need a little bit more room than
that for additional files and software.
| | 02:34 |
So I'm going to change this number to 18
gigabytes, or 18 thousand megabytes.
| | 02:40 |
Now when I click Shrink.
It takes a moment.
| | 02:43 |
And it's going to shrink down my volume C,
leaving me with unallocated space which I
| | 02:48 |
can then create a new volume out of for
installing Windows 8.
| | 02:54 |
So we'll give it a moment to run its
course.
| | 02:58 |
And now we see we're down to about 42
gigabytes here on my machine.
| | 03:02 |
And you can see that that's all been
allocated to drive C.
| | 03:05 |
Over here I have a black bar indicating
unallocated space.
| | 03:10 |
And it rounds up to about 18 gigabytes.
Now it's time to create a volume that will
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be used for installing Windows 8.
So let's right-click up here, again the
| | 03:19 |
fastest way to create a new simple volume.
Click New Simple Volume from the popup,
| | 03:24 |
launches the Wizard.
We can click Next.
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Or you'll see that the actual space that's
going to be used equals the maximum disk
| | 03:32 |
space available.
And again you can change that but why not
| | 03:36 |
use it all.
We'll click Next.
| | 03:39 |
Next is assigning a drive letter, we
already have a drive C, we have an E
| | 03:42 |
that's an actual removable drive, we might
have a DVD drive in their.
| | 03:48 |
So your drive letter that comes up next
maybe different from mine, but you can
| | 03:50 |
click the drop-down and choose anything
you like.
| | 03:54 |
Maybe drive W for Windows.
Well, they're both Windows, so I'm going
| | 03:58 |
to leave it at F, the default and go on to
the next step.
| | 04:03 |
It will use the same file system, the NT
file system.
| | 04:06 |
And down below, the only thing I might
consider changing is the volume label from
| | 04:10 |
New Volume, the default text.
Click and drag over that, type something
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that's going to mean something when you
see it during the installation process for
| | 04:19 |
Windows 8, how about Windows 8.
It will be drive F but it will be labeled
| | 04:24 |
Windows 8.
It will be easily recognizable when we go
| | 04:27 |
to select it as the location for Windows 8
to be installed.
| | 04:32 |
Click Next.
Notice that by default we're going to be
| | 04:35 |
performing a quick format.
There is a summary of our selections,
| | 04:39 |
click Finish and it doesn't take long at
all to format that new drive, drive F,
| | 04:44 |
Windows 8 here it is.
Close to 18 gigabytes sitting there empty
| | 04:50 |
waiting for us to install Windows 8 in
that location.
| | 04:54 |
That way we'll have our Windows 7 drive,
our Windows 8 drive, we can try out
| | 04:58 |
Windows 8 while using Windows 7 and
migrate slowly over time.
| | 05:04 |
When you close this up, you might see
another window open here, Autoplay.
| | 05:08 |
We've created a new drive.
There it is, Windows 8, drive F, and this
| | 05:12 |
little autoplay window opens up prompting
us to, open the folder to see what's in
| | 05:15 |
it, or, use it for something called Ready
Boost.
| | 05:20 |
That allows us to speed up our system.
It can be used as Random Access Memory or
| | 05:23 |
Virtual Memory.
Lets open up the folder to view the files.
| | 05:27 |
Of course, there's nothing there.
Nothing yet.
| | 05:30 |
But when we go through the installation
process with Windows 8, that is a location
| | 05:34 |
we can choose.
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| Installing Windows 8| 00:00 |
By far the easiest way to install Windows
8 is to upgrade from Windows 7 using the
| | 00:04 |
Upgrade Assistant.
It will transfer all your files and
| | 00:08 |
settings, and even your programs.
But, if you've decided to run Windows 8
| | 00:12 |
alongside Windows 7 by creating a separate
partition like we did in the previous movie.
| | 00:18 |
Installing Windows 8 is a little
different.
| | 00:20 |
You'll need to do it from a DVD.
That can come with a box set of Windows 8,
| | 00:24 |
or you could have checked off that option
through the Upgrade Assistant when buying
| | 00:28 |
Windows online.
Either way, you'll take that DVD, and the
| | 00:33 |
very first step is to install it in your
computer and reboot the computer.
| | 00:38 |
This allows you to boot directly from the
DVD.
| | 00:41 |
Next will come a series of prompts that
you'll need to follow.
| | 00:45 |
One of them is simply to click the Install
Now button.
| | 00:48 |
And then select a few preferences, like
the Language you want to work in.
| | 00:52 |
Time and currency formats, Keyboard or
input method.
| | 00:56 |
When you click Next, it's on to entering
the product key that came with the box set
| | 00:59 |
somewhere on the packaging.
Or perhaps you went with the online or
| | 01:03 |
digital version.
In which case, you would have received
| | 01:06 |
your product key digitally.
Either way it needs to go into this field
| | 01:10 |
before you can click the next button to
move on to the next step, which is to
| | 01:13 |
accept the license terms.
You'll want to go through this entire contract.
| | 01:18 |
Click the check box before you can click
the next button to move on.
| | 01:22 |
Next it's very important that you select
the right option here for the type of installation.
| | 01:27 |
Upgrading the first option is going to
replace Windows 7.
| | 01:32 |
That's like using the Upgrade Assistant to
simply upgrade from Windows 7 directly to
| | 01:36 |
Windows 8, and no longer have Windows 7 to
work in.
| | 01:40 |
But we want to install Windows 8 on a
separate partition, therefore, you must go
| | 01:43 |
with the Custom installation option here.
Next, it's very important you select the
| | 01:50 |
right partition, as well.
We created a separate partition, named it
| | 01:54 |
Windows 8 in the previous movie.
That's the one you want to select here,
| | 01:58 |
before you click next, in order to have
Windows 8 running alongside Windows 7.
| | 02:04 |
Then, a few things are going to happen.
You can sit back and relax.
| | 02:07 |
Notice that there is a message indicating
your computer will restart several times.
| | 02:12 |
We'll go through a series of steps.
You'll see a progress bar and windows will
| | 02:17 |
restart itself and then a number of
personalizations and account settings will
| | 02:21 |
be prompted.
For example, color schemes, signing into
| | 02:26 |
your pc with an account.
So if you already have a Microsoft account
| | 02:29 |
you could use like a hotmail address here
if you wanted to.
| | 02:33 |
As you move through those eventually
you'll arrive at this Choose an operating
| | 02:37 |
system screen, because you'll have created
a dual-boot system.
| | 02:42 |
Windows 7 is still there.
Windows 8 is the new default and it will
| | 02:45 |
run automatically after a certain timeout
period if you don't select anything.
| | 02:51 |
If you want to change that default to
Windows 7 you can go down to the bottom
| | 02:54 |
and click change default or choose other
options.
| | 02:58 |
Either way your now working in a Windows 8
environment.
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| Finding your old Windows 7 files| 00:00 |
If you decided to upgrade directly from
Windows 7 to Windows 8, or install Windows
| | 00:04 |
8 over Windows 7 without reformatting your
hard drive.
| | 00:08 |
And you decided to keep certain things
like personal files and settings, some
| | 00:12 |
things were stored for you during the
installation process.
| | 00:17 |
Now we need to know where they were
stored.
| | 00:19 |
For example if you forgot to use Windows
Easy Transfer to transfer certain files
| | 00:22 |
over to Windows 8, you might be able to go
back and get them.
| | 00:26 |
Where you ask?
Well, it's in a folder called Windows.old.
| | 00:31 |
Here from the Windows 8 start screen,
which might look a little bit unfamiliar
| | 00:34 |
and foreign to those who have never used
Windows 8, there is a tile we can click
| | 00:38 |
labelled Desktop.
Give that a click and you'll be taken to
| | 00:42 |
an environment that's totally familiar to
you as a Window 7 user.
| | 00:46 |
In the desktop environment we can go down
to the taskbar and click the yellow folder
| | 00:51 |
representing file explorer.
Give that a click and that opens up where
| | 00:55 |
we can navigate to the location of this
Windows.org folder I'm talking about.
| | 01:01 |
You'll find it on the hard drive in the
root directory.
| | 01:04 |
So, as you scroll up and down the list of
different places here, look for the local
| | 01:07 |
disc minus c colon and give it a click.
Next, over here on the right hand side,
| | 01:13 |
alongside your Windows 8 folders and so
on, you'll find one titled Windows.old.
| | 01:18 |
Just hover over that for a second and
you'll see how large it is, mine is over 5 GB.
| | 01:23 |
So, it's taking up a lot of space and,
there may be files and so on in here that
| | 01:26 |
I simply don't need.
It's just there as a backup.
| | 01:30 |
When I double click this folder, I'm
going to see a sub-folder for users and
| | 01:35 |
another one labeled Perflogs.
Well, under users when you double click
| | 01:39 |
there is where you'll see the different
user account you chose to keep.
| | 01:43 |
For me, it's just mine and there's the
public as well.
| | 01:46 |
Double click your own, and you'll see all
of your sub folders like your contacts.
| | 01:50 |
Your desktop, anything you had stored on
the desktop was moved over.
| | 01:54 |
Anything downloaded, your favorites for
example if you had certain favorites in
| | 01:58 |
internet explorer, you'll have them here
as well.
| | 02:02 |
There's your documents, music, pictures
and so on.
| | 02:05 |
If I go into my pictures and realize
there's certain files or maybe I didn't
| | 02:08 |
choose to keep this folder when using
Windows Easy Transfer, I can always
| | 02:11 |
double-click it to get back in there.
And grab those files and copy them to
| | 02:16 |
another folder or right to my desktop, by
dragging them for example.
| | 02:20 |
Once you have all of the files and folders
that you want to keep from the Windows.old
| | 02:24 |
folder, you'll no longer need it and you
can free up some hard drive space by
| | 02:27 |
deleting it.
There is an easy way to do that, we are
| | 02:31 |
going to talk about it a little bit later
on when we get into disc clean up.
| | 02:36 |
But we'll save that for later and close up
this window for now.
| | 02:39 |
Now you know where to find those old
Windows 7 files that were stored for you
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automatically, during the installation
process.
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3. Post-Installation Tasks on Your Windows 8 MachineRestoring your files and settings with Easy Transfer| 00:00 |
If you decided to install Windows 8 on a
different computer, maybe on a separate
| | 00:04 |
partition on the same computer side by
side with Windows 7.
| | 00:08 |
Or maybe you replaced Windows 7, and
didn't actually upgrade but created a
| | 00:11 |
clean installation by formatting the
drive.
| | 00:15 |
Well in that case, you weren't able to
transfer files during the installation process.
| | 00:20 |
You may have used Windows Easy Transfer
like we did in an earlier movie to pick
| | 00:23 |
and choose the files and folders we wanted
to transfer to Windows 8.
| | 00:28 |
Once we had done the Windows Easy Transfer
on the Windows 7 environment, it's time
| | 00:32 |
now to go get those files here in the
Windows 8 environment.
| | 00:36 |
So from the Start screen, it's a simple
matter of starting to type in Easy Transfer.
| | 00:41 |
Just type in Easy.
You don't have to click anywhere, just
| | 00:44 |
start typing.
The search panel opens up on the
| | 00:46 |
right-hand side, and there are some
results for the apps that appear with easy
| | 00:50 |
in them including, Windows Easy Transfer,
we'll give it a click.
| | 00:55 |
All right, this takes us to a familiar
screen.
| | 00:58 |
Here we are in the desktop environment,
and Windows easy transfer has launched.
| | 01:03 |
It looks exactly the same way it did when
we first launched it in a previous chapter
| | 01:07 |
to go get the files we want to transfer.
Now we're about to retrieve them.
| | 01:12 |
So when we click Next, we need to select
the same method we used to transfer items.
| | 01:18 |
For me it was an external hard disk or USB
flash drive.
| | 01:21 |
If it was a network, you would click
Network, and go find your file on that
| | 01:24 |
network drive.
I'm going to click External Hard Disk or
| | 01:28 |
USB Flash drive, and this time around,
it's not my old PC that I'm transferring
| | 01:32 |
files from.
It's my new PC, even if it's the same PC
| | 01:36 |
it's my new Windows 8 environment that I
want to transfer files to, so I'm going to
| | 01:40 |
click this is my new PC.
Now we have already completed the first
| | 01:46 |
part of the Windows easy transfer.
We saved our files from our old PC, so the
| | 01:50 |
answer here is yes.
If you hadn't, you might have an
| | 01:53 |
opportunity to go back and get them, if
you still have that Windows 7 environment.
| | 01:59 |
So, if you chose No, for example, you
might be able to go get them on another
| | 02:02 |
computer, on another partition for
example, and then come back to this point.
| | 02:08 |
But our answer is yes.
We ran this earlier.
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So clicking yes means all we have to do
now is go find the file in the location we
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chose to store it.
For me, it was my removable drive, my
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flash drive as I scroll down.
There it is, removable disk E.
| | 02:23 |
It has to be plugged into your computer,
obviously, to be recognized.
| | 02:27 |
And there's the Windows easy transfer
items from old computer.
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Right there.
I'm going to select it, that's the default
| | 02:35 |
naming convention that was used.
With it selected, I can click open.
| | 02:40 |
I did choose to password protect it since
it was stored on an external drive that
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could have fallen into the wrong hands.
By password protecting, that file
| | 02:47 |
containing all of my files and settings is
protected.
| | 02:51 |
So I'm going to type in my password now,
to unlock it and click Next.
| | 02:56 |
Alright, now you can see, we get to choose
what we want to transfer.
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We chose what we were going to transfer
earlier, we can simply select transfer, to
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transfer everything.
Or if we did want to be a little picky and
| | 03:08 |
choose exactly what we want to move over,
we can use Customize.
| | 03:12 |
Under the user accounts that show up, I
only have mine or shared items.
| | 03:16 |
It also has a customized link and you can
pick and choose.
| | 03:20 |
Maybe I don't care if I bring over the
music any more, I can deselect it.
| | 03:24 |
Or if you want to be nit-picky, go to
Advanced, where you can go right down to
| | 03:27 |
the various folders and subfolders and
pick and choose what should be included
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and not.
When you click Save, you'll see a
| | 03:35 |
different figure here for the total that's
about to be transferred.
| | 03:40 |
There's also an Advanced Options down here
that you can click if you wanted to.
| | 03:44 |
For example, take that user account from
the old PC, mine called Dave Rivers, and
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transfer to a different account.
Maybe I used a different name for this account.
| | 03:53 |
Where I want to create one on the fly I
can click the drop down here.
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Click Create User, create a user name and
a password.
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It's a brand new account that everything's
going to be moved over to.
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I don't really need to do that so I'm
going to close it up, cancel this.
| | 04:07 |
But now you know it's there if you need
it.
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I'm going to keep everything as is and
click Transfer.
| | 04:13 |
So now it's just a matter of sitting back,
relaxing, and letting the transfer take place.
| | 04:17 |
Depending on how much you've chosen to
transfer, this could take quite a while.
| | 04:22 |
You can see I don't have a huge file here
in either my account or the Shared Items.
| | 04:27 |
And the progress bar gives me an idea
about how long it's going to take to
| | 04:30 |
transfer everything over.
While it's happening, I must not be using
| | 04:34 |
the PC at all.
Shouldn't be creating any new files,
| | 04:38 |
editing existing files, and so on.
So, I could walk away and come back when
| | 04:42 |
this is done.
Or just sit here and watch the progress
| | 04:46 |
bar go and when it's done I'll be able to
take a look at those files.
| | 04:52 |
In the end, once everything is transferred
and the transfer is complete, you have a
| | 04:55 |
couple of options here.
You can see what was transferred.
| | 05:00 |
This will open up a window displaying
everything that you had chosen to transfer.
| | 05:03 |
You could also see a list of apps that you
might need to install on your new PC to
| | 05:07 |
work with those files.
This is all part of the Windows easy
| | 05:10 |
transfer reports that we're going to talk
about in the next movie.
| | 05:14 |
So let's just click Close.
And you'll notice now that we need to
| | 05:19 |
restart our PC to complete the transfer.
You can choose do that right now, by
| | 05:23 |
clicking Restart Now.
Or click Restart Later if you're in the
| | 05:26 |
middle of something that you want to
continue with before restarting your PC
| | 05:30 |
and having access to those files.
So I'm going to click Restart Later, so
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that's part two of Windows Easy Transfer.
If you chose to transfer files and
| | 05:40 |
settings from your old Windows 7 computer
or environment to your new Windows 8 environment.
| | 05:46 |
We just completed step 2 and we're ready
to roll with Windows 8, using our old
| | 05:50 |
files from Windows 7.
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| Analyzing Easy Transfer results and reports| 00:00 |
If you decided to use Windows Easy
Transfer to transfer your user accounts
| | 00:04 |
your folders and files from Windows 7 to
Windows 8.
| | 00:07 |
Once you've completed the process, you
have the option to view reports.
| | 00:11 |
But if you've closed up the window like we
did in the previous movie, you can always
| | 00:15 |
go back to those reports at any time.
If your looking at your desktop
| | 00:20 |
environment, you'll want to get back to
the Start screen.
| | 00:23 |
You can press the Windows key on your
keyboard or you can move your mouse to the
| | 00:26 |
top or bottom right hand corners of this
screen.
| | 00:29 |
And you'll see these charms open up
including one titled Start, give that a click.
| | 00:34 |
Now from here, all we have to do is start
typing easy, just like we did to launch
| | 00:37 |
Windows Easy Transfer.
But this time when the search field opens
| | 00:42 |
up and displays results, we're going to
select the second option which is Windows
| | 00:46 |
Easy Transfer Reports.
Go ahead and give it a click.
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(SOUND) Again it's going to take us back
to our desktop environment and prompt us
| | 00:54 |
to confirm that we're willing to allow
Windows Easy Transfer post migration to
| | 00:57 |
make changes to this computer.
The answer is yes, we'll move into that
| | 01:02 |
desktop environment and start viewing our
report.
| | 01:06 |
Now this window is broken up into two
tabs.
| | 01:09 |
You can see the Transfer Report and the
App Report sections.
| | 01:12 |
With the Transfer Report tab selected, we
can view each of the account details that
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were transferred.
In this case it looks like one user
| | 01:20 |
account was transferred successfully.
If i click Details, it's the only one my
| | 01:24 |
account perfect I can close this up when
I'm done viewing it.
| | 01:28 |
If you want details on the documents that
were transferred, click Details there and
| | 01:32 |
you'll see a list of all the documents
where they were on your old PC and where
| | 01:36 |
they are now on your new PC.
Could be the same PC, it really means
| | 01:41 |
Windows 7 and Windows 8.
If you want to change the order, you can
| | 01:45 |
view them alphabetically by the location
on this PC, the old PC or alphabetically
| | 01:48 |
by their file name.
And you can reverse the order by clicking
| | 01:53 |
the header again.
You can also save this particular report,
| | 01:56 |
if you wanted to, by clicking the Save
Report button.
| | 02:00 |
You'll always have access, you can print
it out for example.
| | 02:03 |
If you want to be able to quickly locate
files knowing where they were in your old
| | 02:07 |
Windows 7 environment and where they might
be now in Windows 8.
| | 02:12 |
Let's close this up.
System settings were also transferred.
| | 02:15 |
There's nothing to do there in the way of
details.
| | 02:18 |
But we can view the App report which will
show us applications that we need to run
| | 02:21 |
some of the files that were transferred.
Now in this case, looks like I need to
| | 02:27 |
install Adobe Flash.
It's not already installed.
| | 02:30 |
I have some files.
Articulate story line files for example.
| | 02:34 |
Which I'll need to install the software
for.
| | 02:37 |
Already installed.
So it knows what's already here.
| | 02:40 |
So if you see Already Installed down the
right, you're good to go.
| | 02:43 |
Any cases where there might be some
blanks, you might need to install some
| | 02:46 |
software to work with the files that were
transferred during the Windows Easy
| | 02:49 |
Transfer process.
All right, so you may have multiple
| | 02:54 |
reports if you've done this more than
once.
| | 02:56 |
You can click the drop-down to select from
previous Windows Easy Transfers if you've
| | 02:59 |
done it before, otherwise there's going to
be one there.
| | 03:03 |
And you can close this up when you're done
viewing the report, remembering you can go
| | 03:07 |
back at any time to view Windows Easy
Transfer Reports.
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| Cleaning up temp files with Disk Cleanup| 00:00 |
If you've completed the Windows 8
installation, you've transferred all of
| | 00:03 |
the files over that you want from your old
Windows 7 computer or environment to
| | 00:06 |
Windows 8 you're up in running, ready to
go, nothing left to do.
| | 00:11 |
Well, there might be one small thing to
consider and that's running a utility that
| | 00:14 |
will clean up your hard drive.
That Windows.old folder we talked about in
| | 00:19 |
our previous movie, you may no longer need
that.
| | 00:22 |
There may also be some temporary files
that were installed during certain
| | 00:25 |
processes that could be removed.
In the end you'll free up some space in
| | 00:29 |
the your new Windows 8 environment by
running this after the fact, its called
| | 00:32 |
Disk Cleanup.
We are going to take a look at it now by
| | 00:35 |
returning to our Start Screen, you can
press the Windows key on your keyboard, or
| | 00:38 |
move your mouse to the bottom or the top
right-hand corner.
| | 00:43 |
When those Charms appear, click Start.
Alright, from here all we have to do is
| | 00:47 |
start typing.
Lets type in the word clean for example.
| | 00:51 |
Now there are no apps matching what we
just typed, but there are some settings.
| | 00:56 |
Notice six here for me.
Give it a click and you'll see one of them
| | 00:59 |
is the free up disk space by deleting
unnecessary files.
| | 01:03 |
Well, let's give that a click and see what
happens.
| | 01:06 |
Takes us over to our Desktop environment
and launches Disk Cleanup.
| | 01:11 |
So it scours our drive.
And then, shows some results.
| | 01:14 |
Files to delete checked off by default on
the left hand side, Temporary Internet
| | 01:18 |
Files, the Recycle Bin is going to be
emptied.
| | 01:22 |
And as we scroll down the list, you'll see
some other ones as well that might be
| | 01:25 |
checked off, or not.
What's really important though is that we
| | 01:29 |
don't see that Windows.old folder here.
And that's because it's a system file.
| | 01:34 |
So, if we also want to clean up system
files, we need to click this button down
| | 01:37 |
at the bottom, Cleanup System Files.
Give it a click.
| | 01:40 |
This re-launches Disk Cleanup and will
include some other locations like, that
| | 01:44 |
Windows.old folder we may no longer need
and it's just taking up space on our harddrive.
| | 01:51 |
So, the results show up again but this
time the list is a little bit different.
| | 01:55 |
As we scroll down you're going to see
previous Windows installations.
| | 01:59 |
And when you click that.
Notice that it talks about the Windows.old
| | 02:03 |
folder that was created as a way to store
files and folders that might conflict with
| | 02:07 |
our new Windows environment.
Other options still there.
| | 02:12 |
Like, the Recycle Bin could be emptied on
the fly.
| | 02:14 |
As we scroll a little further down, here's
a big one.
| | 02:17 |
Windows ESD Installation Files.
If you click that, you will notice that we
| | 02:21 |
might need those to reset or refresh our
PC, so it's best not to check that one
| | 02:25 |
off,even though it is quite a large set of
files.
| | 02:29 |
So, once we have everything selected that
we want to remove, no longer needed, all
| | 02:33 |
we have to do is click OK.
And you will see a warning you're about to
| | 02:38 |
delete these files permanently.
They're not going to the recycle bin where
| | 02:41 |
you can go and get them.
That Windows.old file, you want to make
| | 02:44 |
sure that you're done with it for sure,
because you're about to delete it
| | 02:47 |
permanently if you click Delete Files.
When you do, you'll see a progress bar
| | 02:52 |
showing you the different types of files
that are being removed, and eventually, it
| | 02:56 |
reaches the end, and it will close up that
window.
| | 03:01 |
And you've just freed up some extra space
on your hard drive by removing files you
| | 03:05 |
just don't need here, in Windows 8.
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| Connecting hardware devices| 00:00 |
We're going to take a brief moment now to
talk about connecting devices to your new
| | 00:04 |
Windows 8 environment.
I say brief moment, because Windows 8 is
| | 00:08 |
very good at finding drivers online.
And downloading and installing them for
| | 00:13 |
you the moment you plug a device into your
computer.
| | 00:17 |
We're going to explore this from our start
screen here by typing in the word device.
| | 00:20 |
Doesn't matter where you're pointing, just
type in the word device.
| | 00:23 |
A Search panel opens up and we're going to
go to Settings here because there are no
| | 00:27 |
apps that match device.
But there are several matches when we go
| | 00:30 |
to Settings.
Over here on the left hand side you'll see
| | 00:34 |
this familiar icon representing a cog.
These are Windows 8 apps running in the
| | 00:39 |
new Windows 8 environment.
Some of them will continue to run in the
| | 00:42 |
old desktop environment, like Devices and
Printers, Device Manager, which you might
| | 00:45 |
be familiar with, as well.
But we're going to focus on the new here,
| | 00:50 |
and go over to Devices and give that a
click.
| | 00:53 |
Now this will open up our PC settings, and
devices will already be selected.
| | 00:57 |
Over here on the right, you'll be looking
at a list of devices currently connected
| | 01:00 |
to your computer.
Your list will be different than mine.
| | 01:05 |
You can click any one of these if you want
to select it, and you'll notice this icon
| | 01:08 |
off to the right, the negative sign inside
a circle by clicking that.
| | 01:13 |
You can remove a device.
But we want to focus on adding or
| | 01:17 |
connecting devices.
Before you do though, notice that when you
| | 01:21 |
scroll down to the very bottom there's an
option that should be kept Off if you want
| | 01:24 |
to prevent extra charges while downloading
drivers.
| | 01:28 |
By keeping metered connections turned off,
if you find that you need to install a
| | 01:32 |
device and your on a metered connection.
In other words your not on your regular
| | 01:37 |
internet connection, you might be on a
mobile connection.
| | 01:40 |
Let's say on a smart phone, or perhaps on
a tablet.
| | 01:43 |
You can save the downloading of the driver
for a non-metered connection and save
| | 01:47 |
yourself some money.
I like to leave that turned off.
| | 01:51 |
All right, on this list I want to connect
a printer, let's say.
| | 01:56 |
You can connect any device you like, if
you want to follow along.
| | 01:59 |
I have a multifunction printer.
I'm just simply going to plug into one of
| | 02:02 |
the USB ports and let's see what happens.
Now the moment I plug it in you can see
| | 02:08 |
somethings happening at the top of my
list.
| | 02:11 |
Something is being installed, for the time
being it's unknown.
| | 02:15 |
But there's a progress bar there and as it
continues to search the internet for a
| | 02:20 |
driver eventually this unknown object or
device will become known.
| | 02:26 |
And I'm going to see some information
about it.
| | 02:28 |
Not only that, the driver will be
installed for me, so I'll be up and
| | 02:31 |
running with my new device and ready to
use it.
| | 02:35 |
Really there was nothing for me to do
except plug it in.
| | 02:38 |
So, let's let it run its course and see
what happens when it completes.
| | 02:43 |
Alright, already you can see it's been
recognized as an HP Photosmart C3100
| | 02:47 |
series printer.
And this is now up and running and ready
| | 02:52 |
to use.
I can click this if I wanted to remove it,
| | 02:54 |
but I'm glad I have it now.
I'll be able to use this and work with
| | 02:58 |
this device.
All right, let's just press our Windows
| | 03:01 |
key on the keyboard to return to the start
screen, and take a look at our old
| | 03:04 |
environment now.
We'll type in device again.
| | 03:09 |
Go to Settings, but this time we'll go to
our old Devices and Printers option here
| | 03:13 |
in the second column.
Give that a click, and it opens up in our
| | 03:17 |
old desktop environment.
You might be more familiar with devices
| | 03:21 |
and printers if your Windows 7 user.
Here, we'll see a list of our devices and
| | 03:26 |
our printers, and there's our HP
Photosmart 3100 series.
| | 03:30 |
If I click it, I get some information
about it down below.
| | 03:33 |
I can see it's a printer, scanner and a
copier, and I also see some of my other
| | 03:37 |
devices and not just words or icons, but
actual representations of the device.
| | 03:44 |
This looks like my printer, this looks
like the microphone I'm using to talk to
| | 03:47 |
you right now, that's kind of cool.
We can close this up, press the windows
| | 03:53 |
key to return to your start screen here in
Windows 8.
| | 03:57 |
And, feel confident, that if you're going
to connect a device, Windows 8 is going to
| | 04:01 |
to find the driver, install it for you, so
you'll be ready to use it immediately.
| | 04:07 |
Now there will be case where you might
have older equipment that Windows Eight
| | 04:10 |
simply does not recognize.
And in those cases you will need to
| | 04:14 |
install drivers manually the way you did
back in the old days of Windows XP for example.
| | 04:19 |
Or you might need to grab the disc and
install the driver that way.
| | 04:23 |
Or go to a manufacturers website to locate
a driver, download it, install it and then
| | 04:27 |
connect your device.
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| Final considerations to complete the migration| 00:00 |
Once you're up and running in your new
Windows 8 environment, depending on the
| | 00:04 |
migration path you chose, there may be
some final considerations.
| | 00:08 |
We're going to take a look at some of
those now.
| | 00:10 |
Now if you simply upgraded from Windows 7
to Window 8, you probably have most of
| | 00:14 |
your applications, your settings, your
files, right there, ready to start using.
| | 00:19 |
But if you decided to install Windows 8 on
a partition along side Windows 7, or
| | 00:23 |
simply install the full version of Windows
8, over Windows 7.
| | 00:28 |
Maybe you have a new computer with Windows
8.
| | 00:30 |
There are some final considerations,
including installing applications.
| | 00:34 |
If you want to use those programs you were
working with in Windows 7 environment in
| | 00:38 |
Windows 8.
You might need to locate installation
| | 00:41 |
disks, locate the serial numbers or
product keys that go with them as well.
| | 00:46 |
Remember, there's those Easy Transfer
Reports that will remind you, which apps
| | 00:50 |
need to be installed.
To use the files that you've transferred
| | 00:54 |
over from your Windows 7 environment.
Another consideration deals with older drivers.
| | 00:59 |
If you have an older piece of equipment
you simply can't do without.
| | 01:03 |
Maybe an old dot matrix printer, when you
plug it into Windows 8, it may not be
| | 01:06 |
recognized, because it is older.
In those cases, you'll need to locate the drivers.
| | 01:12 |
Now there's a couple of ways to do that,
you can go to the manufacturer's website,
| | 01:15 |
download it from there, install the
driver.
| | 01:18 |
And then plug in your device, it's
probably going to work fine.
| | 01:21 |
Another option, if you know where they are
is to locate the installation discs, and
| | 01:25 |
install the drivers from there.
And one last consideration that I like to
| | 01:29 |
bring up is SkyDrive.
It's kind of the wave of the future.
| | 01:33 |
It's Cloud storage, and with your free
Microsoft account you get some free
| | 01:37 |
storage space.
It allows you to store files that you can
| | 01:41 |
then access from anywhere on any device.
Now if you do think that this is a cool
| | 01:45 |
option, and you start using it, you might
quickly run out of storage space.
| | 01:50 |
And in that case you might consider
upgrading and paying for more space.
| | 01:55 |
If you want to learn more about SkyDrive
and how it works check out my Windows 8
| | 01:59 |
Essential Training at lynda.com.
So, those are some final considerations if
| | 02:05 |
you've chosen a migration path especially
that does not involve upgrading from
| | 02:10 |
Windows 7 to Windows 8.
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ConclusionNext steps| 00:00 |
Congratulations.
You've reached the end of migrating from
| | 00:03 |
Windows 7 to Windows 8.
You should now be feeling confident about
| | 00:06 |
making the switch over to Windows 8.
Once your computer is up and running with
| | 00:10 |
your new operating system, your software
is installed and ready to use.
| | 00:14 |
And your devices are connected, you'll
want to get up to speed with Windows 8 as
| | 00:17 |
quickly as possible.
Windows 8 is vastly different from Windows
| | 00:21 |
7 in looks, feel, and how you get things
done.
| | 00:25 |
If you've never used it before, you could
be left feeling stranded and frustrated
| | 00:28 |
the first time you try to complete even
the simplest of tasks.
| | 00:32 |
If you've never used Windows 8 before.
My Windows 8 essential training course
| | 00:36 |
here at Lynda.com is your logical next
step to get you using Windows 8 in the
| | 00:39 |
most efficient manner possible.
In the end I think you'll find most tasks
| | 00:44 |
in Windows 8 are actually easier to tackle
than any previous version of Microsoft Windows.
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This is David Rivers saying, thank you for
watching, and I hope to see you again in
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another title from lynda.com.
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