Cant use windows 8.1 Windows Easy Transfer on Windows 8.1

Hi,

Windows Easy Transfer is removed from Windows 8.1.

Items that now can be easily transfered by using SkyDrive in combination with other services and tools, such as Xbox Music to back up your music collection, and File History to keep files always backup and up-to-date.

You may refer to the thread link and the suggestions provided by Michael Day [MSFT].

Windows Easy Transfer (Win 8.1)

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My customers are primarily legal, and cannot use your online service legally, how do I do this without the skydrive service because Microsoft gladly give all the lawyers information to any government office in the world happliy, and has no problem breaking client attorney privilege?  I can't.  Microsoft screwed the pooch horribly here.  Not only that, who transfers a hundred gigabytes over the internet.  Microsoft shareholders should dump this garbage stock and invest in someone who understands the internet and why it is used, and when it should be used.

I agree, telling people to use an online service to transfer data and settings between computers is like my customer asking for a NAS, and me bringing a bundle of bananas into the data center, and saying here, just use this instead, these are wonderful bananas!

Microsoft is more out of touch with their customer base every year, and they wonder why stockholders have lost confidence in them.  They are a ship without a rudder, or the rudder is stuck into a position that is steering for an iceberg.

Wow, I just bought a new family PC shared by 3 different users with lots of different setting on for each  expecting to be able to use the WET facility to copy details across, and then I read this.  This is just UNBELIEVABLY bad service for microsoft.

Removing WET from 8.1 is a catastrophic failure for enthusiasts who wish to back up their user state and rebuild their computer with new parts and a fresh installation of Windows.

I don't WANT to use SkyDrive to back up several hundred gigs of file on a slow cable connection!  I want to simply dump all my files, settings, etc. into a file on an external hard drive.

Is that so much to ask?  Why are you trying to force people into the cloud whose situations don't work well in the cloud?  I'm absolutely baffled that Microsoft would do something so completely ridiculous!

Phydeux,

Yes, it was a preposterous move by Microsoft.  It was also invaluable to use for Virtual Machines.

I often would often use WET to transfer a user's stuff to a clean VM where I could verify it was up and running and I positively had the users machine captured before doing major upgrades or serious troubleshooting on PCs.

It was an elegant and simple solution for many of us to work on machines let alone upgrade our own.

Sure, I own backup software that can image, but that is not the same, and the footprint of the image is much larger.  The WET preserved email settings and other critical stuff.

Removing WET from 8.1 is a catastrophic failure for enthusiasts who wish to back up their user state and rebuild their computer with new parts and a fresh installation of Windows.

I don't WANT to use SkyDrive to back up several hundred gigs of file on a slow cable connection!  I want to simply dump all my files, settings, etc. into a file on an external hard drive.

Is that so much to ask?  Why are you trying to force people into the cloud whose situations don't work well in the cloud?  I'm absolutely baffled that Microsoft would do something so completely ridiculous!