Using Easy Transfer to store files and settings

When upgrading directly from Windows 7 to Windows 8, we can use the Upgrade…Assistant to transfer files, settings, even apps.…But what if you're not going to be upgrading directly from Windows 7 to…Windows 8? Maybe you're going to run a clean…installation of Windows 8 on the same computer, but in a different partition.…So, you can run Windows 7 side by side with Windows 8, or maybe your Windows 8…installation will be on a new computer. When those scenarios, we need to use…something else to transfer files and setting, it's called Windows easy transfer.…

We're going to take a look at it now. Here in a Windows environment, clicking…the Start button in the bottom left corner, allows us to type in the search…field, where our cursor is flashing, the word "easy" to display.…There it is right at the top, Windows easy transfer.…We'll give it a click. on the welcome screen, you can see the…types of content we can transfer using windows transfer.…User accounts,all of our libraries, documents, music, pictures, e-mail and…