One IE Question, One 8.1 Question

I swear that I have spent hours researching each of these questions, gone
to a couple of dozen different forums, and all that happens is that if five
people have asked the question, there are six different answers posted in
reply. The overall effect is very frustrating. Can anyone give me simple,
unequivocal answers to two questions?

1) Is there any way to drag a URL from the IE address bar and drop it onto
an external application? This works just fine with Firefox, but I can't
make it happen using IE.

2) Will the (apparently not so) Easy Transfer Wizard work for transferring
data from a Vista box to an 8.1 box?

I'm an old man. This is not good for my blood pressure. Plus I'm snapping
at people bigger and stronger than I am and somebody is going to beat the
crap out of me if I can't find some inner peace. Straight answers would be
appreciated. TIA...

1) I don't know if with IE 11 you can drag from address bar, but I believe
you could drag links on webpage.

"Alan Holbrook" escreveu na mensagem
. 3.30...

I swear that I have spent hours researching each of these questions, gone
to a couple of dozen different forums, and all that happens is that if five
people have asked the question, there are six different answers posted in
reply. The overall effect is very frustrating. Can anyone give me simple,
unequivocal answers to two questions?

1) Is there any way to drag a URL from the IE address bar and drop it onto
an external application? This works just fine with Firefox, but I can't
make it happen using IE.

2) Will the (apparently not so) Easy Transfer Wizard work for transferring
data from a Vista box to an 8.1 box?

I'm an old man. This is not good for my blood pressure. Plus I'm snapping
at people bigger and stronger than I am and somebody is going to beat the
crap out of me if I can't find some inner peace. Straight answers would be
appreciated. TIA...

1) I verified that I can't drag links to external application. I can drag
links to address bar or text boxes on webpage.

"News uzer" escreveu na mensagem ...

1) I don't know if with IE 11 you can drag from address bar, but I believe
you could drag links on webpage.

"Alan Holbrook" escreveu na mensagem
. 3.30...

I swear that I have spent hours researching each of these questions, gone
to a couple of dozen different forums, and all that happens is that if five
people have asked the question, there are six different answers posted in
reply. The overall effect is very frustrating. Can anyone give me simple,
unequivocal answers to two questions?

1) Is there any way to drag a URL from the IE address bar and drop it onto
an external application? This works just fine with Firefox, but I can't
make it happen using IE.

2) Will the (apparently not so) Easy Transfer Wizard work for transferring
data from a Vista box to an 8.1 box?

I'm an old man. This is not good for my blood pressure. Plus I'm snapping
at people bigger and stronger than I am and somebody is going to beat the
crap out of me if I can't find some inner peace. Straight answers would be
appreciated. TIA...

1) You can drag links to another instance of IE.

"News uzer" escreveu na mensagem ...

1) I verified that I can't drag links to external application. I can drag
links to address bar or text boxes on webpage.

"News uzer" escreveu na mensagem ...

1) I don't know if with IE 11 you can drag from address bar, but I believe
you could drag links on webpage.

"Alan Holbrook" escreveu na mensagem
. 3.30...

I swear that I have spent hours researching each of these questions, gone
to a couple of dozen different forums, and all that happens is that if five
people have asked the question, there are six different answers posted in
reply. The overall effect is very frustrating. Can anyone give me simple,
unequivocal answers to two questions?

1) Is there any way to drag a URL from the IE address bar and drop it onto
an external application? This works just fine with Firefox, but I can't
make it happen using IE.

2) Will the (apparently not so) Easy Transfer Wizard work for transferring
data from a Vista box to an 8.1 box?

I'm an old man. This is not good for my blood pressure. Plus I'm snapping
at people bigger and stronger than I am and somebody is going to beat the
crap out of me if I can't find some inner peace. Straight answers would be
appreciated. TIA...

Hi, Alan.

I'm still a young man; won't be 79 until this Summer. ;^}

1) As Ken1943 said, Copy'n'Paste.

2) WET works well as Microsoft designed it; maybe not the way you expect
it to work.

You have to run WET twice. And you must have either a transfer cable
(not my first choice!) or some storage method to move your data, settings,
etc., from one box to the other. For this example, assume a large USB thumb
drive:

First, run WET on your Vista computer. Select what you want to move FROM
Vista, then point it to the USB drive.

Then, boot up your Win8.1 computer and run WET again. Move your data FROM
the USB drive into one or more folders on your Win8.1 disk.

Remember that WET can move DATA (.jpg, .doc, .xls, etc.) files. It can move
..exe files, too, but it cannot install (most of) those programs for you.
(Some programs can run without being "installed".) You'll need to install
those anew so that the program's Install or Setup process can write the
needed entries into your Win8.1's Registry. If you install Word in Win8.1
before running WET, and if you had included your Word settings when you ran
WET on Vista, it should be able to transfer those settings into Word on
Win8.1.

If you dual-boot both Vista and Win8.1 on the same computer, and if you have
a separate partition that will not be reformatted during your Win8.1 Setup,
you could start Vista, use WET to store your settings on that safe
partition, then run Win8.1 and use WET to copy from that same partition.
You wouldn't need to transfer your DATA files at all; just run your new Word
and point it to the documents folder. (As a long-time dual-booter I've done
that several times.)

Post back if you get stuck, but it should work without raising your blood
pressure very much. ;^}

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3522.0110) in Win8.1 Pro


"Alan Holbrook" wrote in message
. 3.30...

I swear that I have spent hours researching each of these questions, gone
to a couple of dozen different forums, and all that happens is that if five
people have asked the question, there are six different answers posted in
reply. The overall effect is very frustrating. Can anyone give me simple,
unequivocal answers to two questions?

1) Is there any way to drag a URL from the IE address bar and drop it onto
an external application? This works just fine with Firefox, but I can't
make it happen using IE.

2) Will the (apparently not so) Easy Transfer Wizard work for transferring
data from a Vista box to an 8.1 box?

I'm an old man. This is not good for my blood pressure. Plus I'm snapping
at people bigger and stronger than I am and somebody is going to beat the
crap out of me if I can't find some inner peace. Straight answers would be
appreciated. TIA...

On 3/3/2014 4:43 PM, Alan Holbrook wrote:
I swear that I have spent hours researching each of these questions, gone
to a couple of dozen different forums, and all that happens is that if five
people have asked the question, there are six different answers posted in
reply. The overall effect is very frustrating. Can anyone give me simple,
unequivocal answers to two questions?

1) Is there any way to drag a URL from the IE address bar and drop it onto
an external application? This works just fine with Firefox, but I can't
make it happen using IE.

Go "old school"... highlight the URL, hit CTRL-C (copy), place your
cursor where you want it in your other app, hit CTRL-V (paste), voila!

2) Will the (apparently not so) Easy Transfer Wizard work for transferring
data from a Vista box to an 8.1 box?

Never tried it. USB thumb drives are fast, easy, and cheap.
--
best regards,
Neil

Ken1943 wrote in
news

#1 Copy and Paste
#2 No idea, never used it


KenW


Copy and paste works, of course. It just offends my programmer's soul.
But it looks like that's what I'll have to do if I use IE. Sigh...

"R. C. White" wrote in
ecom:

Hi, Alan.

I'm still a young man; won't be 79 until this Summer. ;^}

1) As Ken1943 said, Copy'n'Paste.

2) WET works well as Microsoft designed it; maybe not the way you
expect it to work.


Thanks. Actually, I understand the procedure, what was in question was
the Vista to 8.1 part. There are indications in some of the forums that
that particular combination can be problematical. But I can always try
it and see what happens.

Happy 79th when it comes. You've got 10 years on me. That's very
inspirational.

Ken1943 wrote in
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What needs to be transfered that is so hard to put on a flash drive ?


KenW


Frankly, not very much. Mainly what I want to do that WET is supposed to
handle is transferring my Thunderbird files and profiles. I have a fairly
complex Thunderbird profile on the Vista box and I just didn't want to have
to recreate it.

Neil wrote in
:

On 3/3/2014 4:43 PM, Alan Holbrook wrote:

1) Is there any way to drag a URL from the IE address bar and drop
it onto an external application? This works just fine with Firefox,
but I can't make it happen using IE.

Go "old school"... highlight the URL, hit CTRL-C (copy), place your
cursor where you want it in your other app, hit CTRL-V (paste), voila!

2) Will the (apparently not so) Easy Transfer Wizard work for
transferring data from a Vista box to an 8.1 box?

Never tried it. USB thumb drives are fast, easy, and cheap.

Yup to both. I knew there were workarounds. But as I said to another
poster, it offends my programmer's soul. If Microsquish makes D'n'D
available to software developers, why should Microsquish prevent software
froms using it with IE? And if they tell you they have a utility for
moving files from one box to another, why don't they test it against all
combinations of O/S releases. Or at least of O/S's that are still
supported. I was a software development manager for many years, and if
any of my coders did anything like that, there would be words exchanged.
That's why test plans are written.

"Alan Holbrook" wrote in message
. 3.30
"R. C. White" wrote in
ecom:

2) WET works well as Microsoft designed it; maybe
not the way you expect it to work.


Thanks. Actually, I understand the procedure, what was
in question was the Vista to 8.1 part. There are
indications in some of the forums that that particular
combination can be problematical. But I can always try
it and see what happens.


I don't use WET but there is no problem moving stuff from my XP PC to my
Win8...copy to a thumb drive or whatever,retrieve it with the other OS. I
would expect no problem moving data from any OS to any other.

--

dadiOH
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Bob Henson wrote in
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Thanks, Uncle Bob. Sounds like the way to go.

BTW, I like your .sig. My other favorite about doctors and age is when
your docter says to you "Well, normally I wouldn't do this test, but at
your age..."