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Old 04-23-2021, 07:59 AM
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In my opinion, using a thumb drive is the best and easiest way to do it. You can copy everything from one laptop directory to the thumb drive and then copy it into the same directory on the other laptop. You can buy a thumb drive with up to 1TB of storage data.

Windows used to have a special transfer program, but I think they discontinued it with Windows 10. Note that, if you are trying to transfer software programs, you may need to reinstall the program onto the new laptop. The thumb drive will copy the software files, but the program may not operate without inputting a "product key".
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