I have a new computer and I want to put all Firefox stuff, bookmarks, and T-Bird emails and address book on it, from my old PC. Can I do this myself? How, Please?

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Staples will do it for $130. Can I email the info to myself? Or do I have to use a memory card? What do you suggest? Thanks. Sandy

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Assuming you can still use your old system. Do it yourself and learn. As long as you know how to use XCOPY comes with your systems and can run .bat files (and can edit and save your .bat files before running them). Since you have both systems you will be able to test your backups to see what you missed. Only copy your user data and configurations, wherever you have all of those folders. Install all software. Anything you miss you can still get from the old system and fix your backup .bat to to better when you use it again.
A portable external USB drive of 500GB to 2TB might be purchased for between $50 and $125 now or definitely on a Black Friday sale. Flash drives you probably have several between 4GB and 16GB fine for touch up work. Even for small amounts of data too much to email yourself.
You will get "Windows 7 Premium" on your new system and the current Firefox is 7,0.1 and Nov 8 + a day will probably update to Firefox 8.0 -- http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2011/08/every_six_weeks.html
* Windows 7 Home Premium<br>http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/windows-7/win7.htm#ftp
* Backup your files, always take backups<br>http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/excel/backup.htm
* https://support.mozilla.com/questions/843922
Keep the .bat files you are using on the external device and a copy on the production volume in a folder designated as a copy for the backup files fro the external device. I use both external 1TB HD and several USB drives when I did it almost two years ago.
This is an example of an incremental backup to a 500GB external drive, it does not synchronize the backup only updates the backup but does not delete from the backup.<BR>
<PRE>
REM from C: -- emachines E627
REM to G: -- HP Simple Save 500GB Portable
xcopy g:\bat_lists\e627-to-500gb.bat c:\bat_lists\*.* /s /d /h /y /c
xcopy C:\mysite\*.* G:\mysite\*.* /s /d /h /y
xcopy C:\bk1\*.* G:\bk1\*.* /s /d /h /y
xcopy C:\data\*.* G:\data\*.* /s /d /h /y
xcopy C:\"scansoft documents"\*.* G:\"scansoft documents"\*.* /s /d /h /y
rem xcopy C:\users\*.* G:\users\*.* /s /d /h /y /c
c:\"Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\MEDIA\applause.wav"
c:\"Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\MEDIA\laser.wav"
c:\"Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\MEDIA\applause.wav"
PAUSE FINISHED put_batlist.bat -- last chance to Review before exiting, don't forget to shutdown external drive
</PRE>
Keep things simple use the same userid and passwords on the new machine so you can use copy what you need of your USER files.
This just shows an ideal of what you have to do. You will have to do a lot more. But yuou will need to backup your system and migrating to a new system is a good way of telling if you are backing up what you need to.