To manually copy your files to a network location or to removable media on a computer that is running Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Windows Server , follow these steps:. Open the Users folder, and then open the user folder that contains the files that you want to back up. To determine the size of all the files in the user folder, select all the folders, right-click those selected folders, and then click Properties. The saved files can be copied to any computer. However, you must have corresponding applications installed on that computer to open those individual files.
Not all applications save their files to the user folder. You should make sure that you check other applications and the file system location where the applications save files by default, and then copy those files to the network location or to the removable media.
The next easiest method is to use the Easy Transfer feature in Windows to transfer data to a different computer. This section discusses the following scenarios in which you can use the Easy Transfer feature to back up data to a different computer:. The Windows Easy Transfer feature lets you to back up user account files and settings. Then you can restore those files and settings to a new computer.
To start Windows Easy Transfer, follow these steps:. If you want to move your data from a Windows 7-based computer to a Windows Vista-based computer, use the Windows Vista version of Windows Easy Transfer. To do this, follow these steps:. Open the support folder, and then open the migwiz folder. Then you can restore those files and settings to the new computer. Click Next. Firefox includes a download protection feature to protect you from malicious or potentially harmful file downloads.
If Firefox has blocked an unsafe download, you will see a warning message about the file in the Downloads panel, along with options for handling the pending download.
You can open the Downloads panel to view completed and pending downloads by clicking on the Downloads button the down arrow on your toolbar. See the articles Where to find and manage downloaded files in Firefox and How does built-in Phishing and Malware Protection work? Firefox may not be able to download files if there is a problem with the folder in which downloaded files are saved:.
In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Preferences. Click the menu button and select Options Preferences. Click the menu button and select Settings. If you have tried the above suggestions, you can restore the default Firefox download folder settings:. The setup will copy all the files and then reboot the computer. The computer will restart and the setup will continue.
You will be asked to input your Regional and Language options American is usually default. Select customise and change to your own preferences I have selected U. Click OK and then select details to ensure the keyboard is also set to as your desired. Select OK and finally change the top from US to your personal preference or the American Keyboard layout will still selected. Select OK.
In the next screen enter your name and organisation. You will then be asked for network settings, choose typical unless you want to configure everything yourself. Choose a Workgroup, just make one up of your own and put all your home computers on it or choose a Domain if you have a large organisation.
Don't worry if it looks bad, likely the Video drivers aren't installed yet. The setup is almost finished. Here the Welcome to Windows XP Theme starts playing unfortunately most people don't hear it as the sound drivers aren't installed at this point Click next. You will be asked for network settings, most people won't have their network drivers isntalled so i recommend just selecting skip. Note for non-Dell Media you will likely have to input a product key. For Dell media this and activation should be sorted out automatically in the BIOs.
Note for XP Media Centre Edition there will be a few additional steps, it will install the Media Centre Edition programs, you shouldn't touch your computer at this point. It often works out better installing the latest Service Pack and Internet Explorer before installing the system drivers Downloaded at Step.
It prevents a great deal of problems with Windows Update. The Installation of Microsoft. Ensure you keep to the order listed above for best results. You should again have downloaded these at Step 4 and have them readily accessible on a USB stick or External Harddrive. Running the. For some older systems the drivers will have individual instructions which you will need to follow.
Unfortunately often no installer runs and the file just extracts. To actually install the driver you will need to navigate to the folder where the driver extracted to and run any setup. Many users think they have installed the driver when they haven't. We will take for example R the chipset driver for my Latitude D Double click the downloaded. Select yes. Select Ok. At this stage the setup should start and you should follow through with the installation.
If it does not the driver is not installed. I usually tell it not to reboot until I install all the drivers it is faster this way and always worked for me however it is probably best to reboot when prompted.
You will get a prompt if you need to activate. If using a Dell disc on a Dell system in the method described above, then this shouldn't happen. Press the [Windows] and [Pause Break] or go to start, right click computer and click properties. If you have an error, you likely have not installed a system driver and should quickly check that you haven't missed downloading or installing something. Right click the device with the error and select properties.
Go to the driver tab and select Hardware IDs. If you wish you can check the Windows Update Catalogue with this information. In order to help us assist you with driver issues on the forums, start a new post in the Microsoft OS forum , include the above information alongside the model of Dell and the Operating System. Note restart your computer after installing all the drivers and then recheck for an error.
I also recommend installation of WIndows Firewall Control. So I am not going to argue or force my opinion here.
Just ensure that you install a security suite that you trust. Microsoft Office is not downloadable and you should have a separate installation CD and Product Key for it. For Office use your product key obtained by Belarc advisor Step 1.
For more details about the Microsoft Product Identification Card see here. Microsoft Office will require a product key, you will need to purchase one if you don't have one. Microsoft Works does not require any product key. If you don't have a Microsoft Office license you should use Microsoft Office Web Apps which has tight integration with SkyDrive and the same functionality or slightly more than Office Starter.
Microsoft Mathematics may also be installed, this is essentially a free graphics calculator for Microsoft Windows. Useful third party additions for the full versions of Microsoft Office are Mendeley Desktop Reference Manager and Mathtype both have free and paid versions. The free versions should suffice most users. Users may also install Windows Live Essentials Suite. Follow the instructions here. Skip Step 14a if your system doesn't have Media Direct.
For the systems with Dell Media Direct, once on the windows desktop, insert the media direct disc It should autorun, install the application, if it doesn't you should navigate to the WindowsMD3 folder and click setup.
Use the updater within Media Direct to get it to the latest version. For some unknown reason Dell does not provide Dell Webcam Software under the drivers and downloads page for most systems. Here is the download link Dell Webcam Software R You may wish to download the latest version of Skype before installing the webcam driver. Dell Support Centre may be downloaded and installed from here. It only works on home systems and does not work on Precision, Latitude or Optiplex systems.
It may not be compatible with very old Windows XP systems. Dell Dock is also not provided on the drivers and downloads page. Here is the download link Dell Dock. Copy the files from your external hard drive backup to my documents, my pictures and my videos. You may need to install an addin when you get to Microsoft Update select "run Add-on":.
Select Software optional and review any optional updates you wish to install. Select install now to the left, this will take you to the review and install updates. Select Install Updates at the top of this list.
Visit Windows Update again to check if there are any more updates. Some more may be listed that required the previous updates to be correctly installed.
You may need to do this 2 or 3 times. It will tell you when Windows is up to date. Therefore many users opt to stay clear of BIOS updates completely. I personally tend to update the BIOs if available after a clean install. On this screen is the model number and the BIOS revision. The BIOs revision typically this of either 2 formats:.
Restart computer. Then double click the file and run it as an administrator. Don't touch the computer until the BIOS update is complete. It should automatically log you off, update the BIOs and restart the computer.
For that select the created virtual machine from the left side of the VBox panel and click on the Start button given in the menu of the same. As we are installing Windows XP on VirtualBox, thus, a single partition will appear, simply press the enter button to format the whole partition.
After some time , it will ask you to enter the license key for Windows XP. Once it will be done, you will get the old but very familiar interface of Windows XP with familiar startup sound. Thus, in this way, we can install our old Windows XP system on VirtualBox Virtual Machine for testing legacy software or learning purpose. Is there any way to set it up for gaming? It seemed to install on the virtual computer just fine, but then I tried opening it and got this popup that said the game failed to load.
There might be some problem, please see that game is in working condition or there is something missing for example some update or file.
Because it really hard to tell without actually getting hands on the game. Or just tell us which game are you planning to play on Windows XP and will try the same on our end to check whether it is working or not. Thanks for the tutorial on how to put XP in a virtual box. But I would like to know how to create a hard disk drive and fix my internet on Windows XP via virtual box.
I correct the error shown but nothing is corrected and I cannot progress any further. What to do?
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