I bought a new/old puter and I need to xfer some files that I use for my business from old puter to new/old one. Old one is an 80486 100 cpu, 32 ram, win 95 4.00.950. My main area of concern is MSMoney and MSworks. Both were added on old 486 but now I cant find disks to simply add to new P111. Short of installing old HD in new P111 and copying it, is there anyother way to xfer files from one puter to another. By the way, 486 uses ISA buss so there is very little that I can buy to upgrade or use to connect these 2 puters together, everything is either PCI or USB none of which is available on the old 486 which rules out external zip drives so far as I can find. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You won't be able to transfer an application from one computer to another. you have to reinstall on the new machine and transfer the data files only from the old machine. as far as transfer you have a few options. floppy copies laplink cable and Filemaven email them to yourself

What versions of Money and Works?

Windows has Direct Cable connection in-built you only need a lapLink parallel or null modem serial cable see: http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dcc.htm

SkipCox, I have Works 4.0 and Money 4.0a on old 486 and MSWord 2000 9.0.2720 And MSExcel 2000 9.0.2720 and Quickbooks Pro 2000 on the new P3 Puter, thats why I need to xfer these other applications to use atleast till the year is over and then start over again with new stuff. Old puter just way too slow and is almost full with much needed applications that cant be removed to make more space and just try and get a larger HD for an old 486 !!!!! one last ?, I still have all the registration numbers, oem numbers, and product ID numbers for the MSMoney and MSWorks, Any chance that MS will let me DL them onto new puter? Thanks everyone, its all been very helpful.

You can take the HD out & slave it to the new one . xxcopy copies long file names . xxcopy ( freeware ) from , http://www.datman.com/xxcopy Forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/ Info http://groups.google.com/groups?q=xxcopy&num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&scoring=date&as_drrb=quick&as_qdr=&filter=0 Start > Programs > MS-DOS Prompt . Copy a command from the selection below & click paste in MS-DOS , then click Enter . No need to close any programs down . 1st command , you get a copy of everything . 2nd command excludes Windows . 3rd command copies Windows only . 4th command excludes Windows Temporary Internet Files . Adjust drive letters to suit . 1 . XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE 2 . XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE /Xwindows\ 3 . XXCOPY C:\Windows D:\Windows 4 . XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /Clone /x\windows\temp*\ If you don't want to confirm all the overwrites ( you get 3 choices Y,N,A, Y ( yes ) overwrites that file , N ( No ) , A ( All ) overwrites everthing ) use the /yy switch after Clone . Eg. XXCOPY /CLONE /YY C:\ X:\ Below applies if you want to make the new hard drive your main drive ( usually C ) http://members.tripod.com/~diligent/harddisk.htm Use the startup disk to boot the computer and when you are at the A:\ prompt type sys c: and press Enter. The required boot information will be copied to the new disk and you have a working copy of the old hard disk . If the partition is not active , use fdisk , option 2 . If the drive you copied was partitioned , ( ex. C has the Operating system , D has Programs E has other files & so on ) the new drive is best partitioned the same way . You can always change things around on the new drive later .

" Any chance that MS will let me DL them onto new puter? " If you have the (installaion) software complete and the required numbers etc., just install afresh to new system? It won't really matter if M$ knows or not... You are going to be running it all on the new system - and as you own the software, as long as you are technically only using it one system, it's yours to do with as you please? Nice load of helpful info from Johnw although it does mean slaving the drive to the new system? Otherwise laplink etc. options...?