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Recreating your old computer's settings on your new PC, backup made easy and more
By Liane Cassavoy •
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- Moving Made Easy: Upgradingto a new PC? Desktop DNA Professional from Miramar Systems(www.miramar.com) carries your old PC's settings(including address books, bookmarks and macros) to your new PC. Itcreates a self-extracting file you can save to a network orremovable media, then install in the new computer. Street price:starts at $27 per seat for 10 to 99 licenses, with volume discountsavailable.
- PC Protection: Backing upyour PC isn't fun, but it's easy with Stomp's BackUpMyPC (www.stompsoft.com). A $69 (all prices street)downloadable version or $79 CD version backs up single files oryour entire hard drive to your own hardware, CD and DVD drives, Zipdisk or high-end tape drives. It also creates floppies and CDs incase your system fails to boot.
- Easy on the Eyes: Yourhigher-resolution display may offer more screen space, but it'snot always easy to read. Liquid View from Portrait Displays(Us.portrait.com/products/lv.htm), allows you to changethe size of icons, menus and application tools without reducing theamount of info on display. Prices start at $39.95 for adownloadable version; a CD version costs $49.95.
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