Presto Transfer IE and Windows Live Mail

Presto Transfer IE and Windows Live Mail helps transfer your favorites, mail and address book from one computer to another.

Pros: Whenever users want to move from one machine to another, there’s a lot of existing data one needs to transfer. Useful links stored on the favorites tab of the IE, all the mail accumulated in the Outlook and so on. The contact/address book is another set of very useful data. Presto Transfer IE and Windows Live Mail can help automate the transfer. The application has a wizard like interface. It creates a self extracting compressed archive. One can specify any drive/folder where the archive would be created. Typically an external drive or a removable media like a Flash drive should be specified. One could burn a CD/DVD for the transfer too or just write to a network drive or even FTP the archive over to a server. The file is automatically named as PrestoTransferIEandWindowsLiveMail.exe on the drive specified. This is the file that will be restored on the destination machine. On the Transfer file destination page if the burn CD/DVD option is chosen, write speed and couple of other parameters such as if the disc should be erased etc can be chosen. On choosing FTP, the ftp server name, user name & password, remote directory etc has to be set.

Restoration simply consists of executing the archive. At this time the restoration part of the wizard comes up for help.

Cons: Nothing problematic noticed.

Overall: This really simple to operate application serves a useful purpose. Being wizard based the user does not have to worry about what to archive if a machine transfer is to be done. The application takes care of everything. This rates 3 stars certainly.

Presto Transfer IE and Windows Live Mail is an application designed to help automate the transferral of your favorites, mail and address book from one computer to another. Once installed, Presto Transfer's easy to use wizard interface creates a self-extracting transfer archive of your data which can be restored by simply running it on the destination computer. The transfer archive can be automatically burned to CD/DVD, written to a USB MP3 player, a removable drive, shared across a network or even sent to a remote FTP server!
The trial version of Presto Transfer will create an executable transfer archive but the software must be purchased before your data can be restored to the destination computer.