Transfer to a new HP: does HP have a migration tool – and other options

Transfer to a new HP laptop

So you’ve purchased a new HP computer and you want to have all your documents, settings, and apps transferred from your old PC. Whether it is an HP Pavilion, Envy, Spectre, Omen or EliteBook – the question is the same: how do you move your stuff over?

Does HP have its own migration tool?

Unlike Lenovo (which offers a Migration Assistant), HP does not ship a migration tool of its own for current computers. HP’s support pages point you to the standard Windows options – signing into your Microsoft account, OneDrive, or copying files with an external drive.

Those options move files – and only files. Your programs, accounts, settings, emails, and everything that makes the computer feel like yours stay on the old PC, waiting to be reinstalled and reconfigured by hand.

How to actually transfer everything to the new HP

The way to transfer your programs, settings, profiles and files to the new HP is to use a dedicated transfer tool – Zinstall WinWin.

It transfers your applications, accounts, personalization and all of your files from any Windows computer to your new HP – automatically. Apps arrive installed and configured, just like on the old computer. It works from any brand to any brand – Dell to HP, Lenovo to HP, an old HP to a new HP.

How to transfer everything to the new HP

  1. Run Zinstall WinWin on your current computer (the one you are transferring from).
    Note: You can get Zinstall WinWin here.
  2. Run Zinstall WinWin on the new computer
    1. You don’t need to do any configurations for the computers to connect – it’s automatic
    2. If the computers are already connect to same router, same Internet connection, or same wireless connection, you don’t need anything else
    3. If the computers are not connected at all, connect them with a network / Ethernet cable
  3. If you’d like to select which applications and files you want to transfer, press the Advanced menu. If you just want to transfer everything, you don’t need to go to the Advanced menu.
  4. Press “Go” on the new HP computer to start the transfer

That’s it!

Once the transfer is done, everything will be on the new HP – your programs, settings, accounts and all your files, just like on the old computer.

The new computer will feel just like home.

Ready to transfer everything to your new HP?

Get Zinstall WinWin here!

Video tutorial – how to transfer everything from old computer to new computer