Do Not Sell My Personal Information Jump to content


  • Join The Club

    Join the Lexus Owners Club and be part of the Community. It's FREE!

     

Calling All The I.t. Crowd


aaronabbott
 Share

Recommended Posts

Have they both got ethernet ports mate?

If so you could just connect them via an ethernet cable - the ports should be MDI-X nowadays so you shouldn't need a crossover cable but it makes life easier if you've got one!

Alternatively you could drag all the files across over a wireless connection but it may take a while!

Easiest option is use an external USB hard disk?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Have they both got ethernet ports mate?

If so you could just connect them via an ethernet cable - the ports should be MDI-X nowadays so you shouldn't need a crossover cable but it makes life easier if you've got one!

yeah got a few of them cables around to,in maplins a crossover cable is only about £5 though

would i have to use any programme?

Link to comment
Share on other sites


Hi Aaron,

Why not save your new PC, back up all your data to an external hard drive ( 250/500 GB cheap as chips) and when you have your apps on your new PC they should be easily found. Clean your old PC down, leave the applications on there, use some free ware products to tune the PC and give it to a member of the family. You will be surprised how fast it will run once is cleaned down.

Done it many times and surprised their owners enormously !!

Hope an alternative helps

Mike S

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I dont have a problem with any of mine, they are all running with external HDs, all the new PCs will have USB2's that are almost as fast having an internal HD. I would be surprised if could tell the difference.

We run all our Pc's like this which as far as I can tell keep the PC running as fast as it can and makes things like backing up /pictures/music/data a doddle.

Dont throw your old PC away, we can make it fly again.

Mike S

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Sorry mate I realise that about the hard disks, it's the USB PC to PC cables that I've never tried before!

Laptops run loads quicker with a fullsize drive due to bigger cache sizes and better spindle speeds, much better for running VMs on and stuff like that :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

depending on what os you are running and how much Ram you have available and how clean your hdd is (as in defragged) a free space of around a gig in your windows installation drive will prob give you optomum processor performance. as far as file transfers are concerned, i'd copy them to an external source from the old lappy and put the in the new one. that way you also get a backup!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Latest Deals

Lexus Official Store for genuine Lexus parts & accessories

Disclaimer: As the club is an eBay Partner, The club may be compensated if you make a purchase via eBay links

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share






Lexus Owners Club Powered by Invision Community


eBay Disclosure: As the club is an eBay Partner, the club may earn commision if you make a purchase via the clubs eBay links.

DISCLAIMER: Lexusownersclub.co.uk is an independent Lexus forum for owners of Lexus vehicles. The club is not part of Lexus UK nor affiliated with or endorsed by Lexus UK in any way. The material contained in the forums is submitted by the general public and is NOT endorsed by Lexus Owners Club, ACI LTD, Lexus UK or Toyota Motor Corporation. The official Lexus website can be found at http://www.lexus.co.uk
×
  • Create New...