Computer Swap

Yesterday, out of the blue, my son offered to upgrade my computer. Shared activities have been tough with this guy, so I took him up on it. Besides which, my computer was from 2012 and overdue for maintenance.

The hardware part went fast. He gave me an updated motherboard, a solid state drive (he’s very big on solid state drives) and a better graphics card. These were parts he was salvaging from a friend’s old machine, so I didn’t even have to pay for them.

Now comes the harder part, transferring the data from the previous drive and setting it all up again. We tried to transfer my profile over, but no, that would be much too easy. Copying photos and documents is simple enough, but the most of the programs were about as old as the computer. I’ll have to go through one at a time, decide if I still need/want them, and re-install things.

Do I have discs for these? No, silly! Except, miraculously, I did find the disc with my printer drivers on it.

So that’s what I’m up to today. Visiting my usual web sites and updating bookmarks. In a few cases, I’ll have to decide whether to buy software again. It’s going to be quite a project. I hope to be done by Friday, but who knows?

Good thing I was done with Prisoners of the Wailing Tower!