New PC

The HP I ordered arrived today and I will be hooking it up tomorrow. I read in the book that there is a wizard that will transfer all the files from my old PC to my new one. It just says files and settings. How about Programs? Like Quick Books and Spy Ware programs? The thing is though I have been having all kinds of trouble with the old one and I'M afraid I'LL bring some of the problems with the old files. What should I do? I have several programs such as Norton,Ad Ware,Spy Sweeper and Pest Patrol that I subscribe to updates for. Should I load the old programs from the wizard or reinstall from the CD then go on line for the upgrades? Remember I'M on dial up so starting from scratch will bite. Any thing else you think of I might need to know when making the switch please let me know. I thought of networking them and unloading all unnecessary programs from the old PC and using it for files and picture storage. Is this a good idea...best use? Speaking of pictures do I really need to install the software that came with my camera? I don't use it I prefer Microsoft's Photo editor or Adobe Photo shop 7.0 anyway. Comments suggestions please. Thanks.



New PC

HP Compaq Business Desktop dc7100 CMT
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional SP2
Intel® Pentium® 4 560 (3.60E GHz) with 800-MHz Front Side Bus, 1024KB L2 Cache
Thermal Kit - dc7100 CMT
1GB DDR Synch Dram PC3200 (400-MHz) Non ECC (2 x 512)
1.44MB Diskette Drive for CMT
160GB 7200rpm Serial ATA
160GB 7200rpm Serial ATA (2nd)
SATA Cable 2nd CMT
16X 4.7GB DVD+R/RW Drive
48X/32X/48X/16X Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive
Integrated Intel® Media Accelerator 900
Integrated Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit ethernet
Integrated Intel® audio with premium internal speaker
No keyboard
No mouse
I already have a NEC MulitSync LCD 1700V Monitor and Logitech Keyboard and mouse.

Agere V92 56K PCI SoftModem, full-height for CMT
Microsoft® Office 2003 Professional
dc7100 Country kit for CMT and SFF
dc7100 Restore CD

 

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Just got it and you take the cover of to see whats inside Exactly what i whould do ..... If you ( on the old PC ) set the IDE controller driver to standerd IDE controler and then use ghost or partition magic to copy every thing from your old hard drive it should boot ok youl need to install the drivers for the new system but it should work