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Does ATI Use migwiz.exe (Winfoes Easy Transfer) Under The Sheets?

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Windows 8.1 Enterprise

ATI 2016

Noticing for the first time that migwiz.exe is running... Logs can be found here:

c:\users\<user>\AppData\Local\MigWiz\

migwiz.exe is in either of these 2, depending:

c:\windows\System32

c:\windows]SysWOW64

For those unfamilair, the Wikipedia entry for MigWiz is here.

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Migration assistant is built into Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 (gone in windows 10 now).  Other third party tools like Laplink use this as well.  This is not an Acronis service.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/d4872cf1-5854-a363-2e14-2497f56f1505/windows-easy-transfer-is-not-available-in-windows-10

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/928634

  1. Type a path and a folder name in which you want to store the Windows Easy Transfer wizard files, and then click Next.

    Note The default path is C:\migwiz.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd446674(v=ws.10).aspx

Windows Easy Transfer (Migwiz.exe) is installed with Windows 7 and is available on the Windows 7 DVD in the Support\Migwiz directory