File and Settings Transfer Wizard

[shmokes]

Is it just me, or is it ---smurfing--- horrible?  It seems to accomplish nothing, other than to do an incredibly poor and incomplete job of transferring files and settings, while taking ten times as long as it would take for me to do it manually.  Ugh . . . what a pain in the ass.

[sphetr2]

Yes, it is a completely useless piece of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. If they found a way to transfer programs, now that would be useful. But you can just use an external hard drive and transfer all files at once.

[shmokes]

It didn't even transfer user accounts, for Christ's sake.  It treats the old computer like the only files and settings it needs to transfer over are the ones of the user that is logged in and initiating the wizard.  What about PC's that are used by more than one person?  Plus, some folders that I manually specified for the thing to get just never came over.  WTF?  As if that wasn't bad enough, it wouldn't just transfer over the network so I ended up telling it to save all the files to a USB flash drive (which is how I would have transfered the files anyway.  AND, as if all that wasn't enough, it took me three tries because the computers had different versions of the File and Settings Transfer Wizard on them (though they're both XP) and you have to use exactly the same version on each computer, but when I tried running the Wizard on the old computer from the XP disc that shipped with the new computer it still told me that I was using different versions, so I had to create a wizard disc from within the wizard on the new computer and start the process over from scratch for a third time before it finally all worked, only to find out that I need to go through and do the whole thing manually still because it left almost everything I need on the old computer (and I'm not talking about programs, I didn't expect it to pull programs over).  Basically I spent about an hour and a half doing something that would have taken me ten or fifteen minutes to do manually. 

LAME LAME LAME