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Windows 7 migration tools enable copying of user profile information from the old operating system to a new Windows 7. One of the migration tools is Windows Easy Transfer. "Windows Easy Transfer is designated for the migration of a single computer, Easy Transfer is a wizard-based utility that makes it possible to migrate user profile information for multiple users from one computer to another" (Zacker, 2011). Windows Easy Transfer provides two ways of performing migration; side-by-side migration and wipe-and-load migration. When there are two computers, one with the old user information and another with clean hard drive, side-by-side is recommended. However, if a user wants to transfer his user profile information from his old operating system to Windows 7 on a same computer, wipe-and-load migration is used. Windows 7 migration plan with wipe-and-load techniques is written in steps in the following paragraphs.
First step in migrating to Windows 7 is checking whether the computer hardware supports Windows 7 operating system. If there are incompatible and missing hardware, the user m...

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