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I want transfer Entire/everything from OLD PC to NEW/different laptop

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I have OLD laptop and wish to transfer ALL data/info to my NEW laptop. I (do not) need from my OLD laptop Window 10. That because my NEW laptop already reinstall with Window 10x64 ! I want my picture, music, some documents and downloads. I want my favorites from Imported From Firefox listing and Imported From Internet Explorer. Could you explain in simple detail and  from step 1 to very end and finish? What to do in easy terms or provide links. I do have external Hard Drive and DVD disc ! My Old laptop freezes up and very Old. Thank you for the support and Help. 

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Brandon, welcome to these User Forums.

You should be able to copy your user data from the old laptop to your new one reasonably easily given you already have Windows 10 installed and active on both systems, so you are not wanting to move the OS or any applications etc.

Using ATI you can make a backup of your pictures, music, documents, downloads and then restore this to the new laptop.  The key point when doing this is not to restore those items using the original permissions or else you will find that you are not authorised to access them.  This is because your User ID on the old laptop can never match your new User ID on the new one, even if you use the exact same name!

In reality, you do not need to use ATI to do this type of data migration, as you can simply copy all of this data to your external Hard Drive, then copy it from there to the new laptop.

You could also copy the data directly from the old laptop to the new one if you have both connected to your local network and allow sharing for the folders involved, using either a free synchronisation program such as SyncFolders or by mounting the old laptop folders on the new laptop.

Migrating our Firefox favourites will be something you will need to do a search on - I have never done that so cannot advise you - I don't use Firefox myself.  

Internet Explorer favourites are simply a folder shown in Windows Explorer for your User account, so you can copy them easily.

Firefox favorites and book marks are easily migrated using Mozbackup http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/. It is no longer developed but still works for Win 10. It can also handle Thunderbird if you use that for email.

When migrating "DATA" (files, documents, music, etc) from one computer to another, you do not need backup or migration software.  It's a matter of copying and pasting that data from old machine to new machine.  Just make sure to log into the new computer and create your new profile on it first.  

Then, copy (not cut) your basic data from machine A to machine B (using an external drive as the median storage space to make things simple).

Things like Firefox user data (favorites, settings, etc) are found in your hidden %appdata% folder and can still be copied from one machine to the other.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user…

basically, on the original machine, navigate to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and find your profile.  Copy the entire folder and paste it in the same location on the new machine after Firefox has been installed and opened at least one time.  

You can do the same with Chrome:

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/export-chrome-profile-79321.html

HOWEVER, before doing anything, I would always recommend backing all original data, "AS IS" just so you have a safety net and a fall back point.  You never know... someone might accidentally copy/paste in the wrong direction or something like that.