Universal Restore - Your experiences, advice

Unless you are changing the motherboard, you will not need to restore your hard drive. It is never a bad idea to do a backup or image or clone or whatever, especially when you are changing hardware. However, Windows should not require any changes if all you are doing is changing the CPU.

It is none of my business, but are you certain that change would help much? Most people think it would, but that is not necessarily correct. It depends on what you use the computer for and all the other parts. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link and the CPU is just one link in that chain.

Additional: If you do keep the same motherboard, you may need to update the BIOS. If so, do that BEFORE you try to change the CPU.

I have system backups on an HDD, but fortunately never needed their use. Now, I have replaced my win XPPro SP2 Dell Laptop with a new Dell XPPro SP3 laptop and would want to transfer my Acronis 10 and several other programs to the new machine, + a mess of data, documents, pics etc.
How can I do this with Acronis? My V.10 was a download as were several other programs which I need to reinstall on the new machine. Where can I find the Acronis email address, to ask them directly
Thanks. ED
edlynn@usa.com

Edgar Sternstein wrote:

I have system backups on an HDD, but fortunately never needed their use. Now, I have replaced my win XPPro SP2 Dell Laptop with a new Dell XPPro SP3 laptop and would want to transfer my Acronis 10 and several other programs to the new machine, + a mess of data, documents, pics etc.
How can I do this with Acronis? My V.10 was a download as were several other programs which I need to reinstall on the new machine. Where can I find the Acronis email address, to ask them directly
Thanks. ED
edlynn@usa.com

When it comes to the apps it is far better to re-install them. Data you can simply copy to an external hard drive from the old computer then over to the new computer - no need to use True Image for this.

Thanks very much for all your comments, but I will be replacing my motherboard and therefore will need to use Universal Restore. I just wanted to hear comments from others who have actually done this and have any advice or tips for the process and if their restore was successfull.

After all, the whole idea of Universal Restore is so we won't have to "re-install all applications" which seems to have been the accepted protocal for many years.