Free copy of Laplink PC Mover ($50 value!) today
Thu May 15, 2008 12:00AM EDT
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To celebrate its 25th birthday, the good folks at Laplink are offering PC Mover for free, for today and today only.
Valued at $50, PC Mover is one of the most useful utilities
I've encountered in recent years. PC Mover is file transfer software unlike any you've likely seen before. It doesn't just move your data files and your program settings from one computer to another, it moves all your applications, too, which means no reinstalling Office, transferring your email software, or even reloading Photoshop. You can move from XP to XP, Vista to Vista, or even XP to Vista. In fact, it supports operating systems all the way back to Windows 95.
In my testing (see full review here), PC Mover worked flawlessly. While some commenters suggested using free cloning software when I wrote my review, that's missing the idea behind PC Mover: Cloning software creates an identical copy of your hard drive, while PC Mover takes everything and puts it on a new PC while leaving what's already on that PC intact. That's a blessing if you have a different operating system on the new computer, and it's critical if, say, you're jumping from a Dell laptop to an HP. Overwriting all the drivers on your new computer (as you'd do with a clone) is a surefire way to make it stop working. PC Mover, however, keeps all those system files intact.
The deal is good only for Thursday, May 15, midnight to midnight, Eastern Daylight Time. Even if you don't need PC Mover right now, it's a great idea to download a copy and keep it handy for when you do jump to a new PC. I know I'm grabbing a copy!
P.S. Laplink also promises other product giveaways today, including free laptops, so check it out at laplink.com!
UPDATE: Site is really slow right now. I'm checking with Laplink to see if they'll be extending the offer to compensate.Â
NEW UPDATE: Laplink tells me the offer will be extended through Friday so those of you who couldn't get through today due to the crush of traffic will be able to take advantage of it.Â
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2 Posted by hingarfi on Thu May 15, 2008 9:15AM EDT Report Abuse
LapLink has come up with a clever publicity gimmick. Of course their inadequate "IBM 8088 PC Server" guarantees only "4" persons will get the free download. I used their stuff back in the era of parallel printer ports and it was pretty darn good.
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3 Posted by damienanderson228 on Thu May 15, 2008 9:23AM EDT Report Abuse
did i overlook something here? i didn't see anything about a free copy of this program. i saw 50% off the physical copy.
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4 Posted by dan.farnham on Thu May 15, 2008 11:06AM EDT Report Abuse
Wasted 3 hours trying to download this "free" copy. Never downloaded. Some value!!!!
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5 Posted by onetimmay on Thu May 15, 2008 11:07AM EDT Report Abuse
They are not extending the offer. They actually changed it to 50% off instead of free. Took me about 1/2 hour to get to the point of download and then it said 1/2 off.
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1 Posted by bepfan214 on Thu May 15, 2008 2:28AM EDT Report Abuse
When you are prompted to create a new account and enter some personal information. You can see on the address bar that the registration page is only "http," not "https."