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I am trying to transfer my settings, etc. from my xp system to my vista system. The windows easy transfer utility, like many things in vista, does not work. No matter what I do, or what I try to transfer, I get "Migration failed: Access is denied." The account names are the same, all of the network permisssions are set to allow everything and I cannot even get the documents folder to transfer. Any ideas?
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...Problems encountered. Maybe it is just that a round peg does not fit a square hole ?
Or it might be that the files you want to transfer are encrypted (there is such an option in xp, and probably also in vista) and vista doesn't have the key to decrypt.
Also what I encoundered when accessing xp personal files in vista is that the access rights have to be ajusted (it should do that automatically though) before first accessing.
Last possibility is that you just dont have the rights as the error stated. Make sure you are running this from an administrator account.
I did not use that feature myself as I do not trust it. Its better to make a clean installation (even though it is more work).
I could not get it work either, my xp kept crashing, I ended up buying Laplinks' PC mover, and using the belkin easy transfer cable, worked like charm, first time, Kinda of expensive for a one time use thing, but it depends on how much you have if its woth it to you or if you would rather sit and reload everthing.
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