Sunday, April 21, 2019

2019/04/21: Laptop Data Transfer

my 4 year old old laptop

has been making noise literally

and recently escalated

“system fan is out of order”

is the first thing greeting me

whenever i turn it on

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in fact it may be around

for quite some time

i hardly shut down

only on sleep mode

unless the battery is flat

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so it was quite a fast process

it took me one night to survey

and saw the specific model

i wanted will be on flash sale

next morning

and there you go

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same old HP

because this has been pretty reliable

for the past 4 years

and 15.6” still

as i don’t think i can survive

without the numeric keypad

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good thing that

it got delivered on a Saturday

have been trying day and night

to transfer files from

old to new laptop

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Homegroup no longer exists

transferring via software

seems weird because

the total size doesn’t tally

couldn’t find my external hard disk

and thumb drive will take forever

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and finally this works

https://techwiser.com/how-to-connect-pc-to-pc-lan-cable/

transferring via LAN cable

it seems complicated at first glance

but it isn’t

fast and reliable

thanks….. really

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it’s kinda disappointing how

those good old things are

slowly disappearing

from Windows

other than HomeGroup

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first

Window Photo Editor

Window Live Writer

(now blogging from Open Live Writer)

Google Chinese Input is no longer supported

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the Taiwanese input

has this funny name called

Microsoft Bomofomo

seriously??

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i don’t think Control Panel

is still around as well

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and it feels annoying

when opening up to a Start menu

which is pre-installed with paid content

Netflix, Agoda, Spotify

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and of course

before installing Chrome

now where is Internet Explorer

oh it’s dead

replaced with Microsoft Edge

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and Skype is now

part of Microsoft Office

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well maybe it’s just me

the old schooler

resisting the change

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anyway

thank goodness

i found the way to

transfer data the good old way

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it’s a good time

for me to clear those

many folders named

“Misc”, “Unsorted”

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the amount of data

from an old desktop

two generations of laptop

a couple of phones

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one last question here

if laptop is getting more similar

to a mobile phone

how i wish it does have a

one-touch clone function

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sorry

getting a bit too grumpy

over the time wasted

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