XP users eager to move up to the new Microsoft OS everyone's raving about are in for rude awakening: The Windows 7 installer doesn't offer the Upgrade option to users moving from Windows XP to Windows 7. So if you bypassed Vista, you're forced to go through installations again for all your applications. Windows 7's Easy Transfer tool works for documents, settings, e-mails, and users, but it won't actually transfer programs. To the rescue comes Laplink's PCmover, which the company claims is the only software utility that can transfer programs from XP to Windows 7. In my testing, PCmover proved itself more than up to the task. It won't be available until early October, well in time for Windows 7's launch, but it's such a cool product that we decided to tell you about it now so that you can plan ahead.
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