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Dell Migrate overview

Dell Migrate is an on-demand service that enables you to securely migrate your personal files and settings to your Dell PC from any PC running the Windows operating system 7 or later. After you migrate your data, you can erase and reset your old PC before you sell, gift, or trade in the PC. To purchase the Dell Migrate service for your PC, click Dell Migrate on the Discover page.

The Migrate service is available only for the Inspiron, G Series, XPS, and Alienware PCs in certain regions. For the list of supported regions, see the Supported locales section in the Dell Migrate User's Guide available on the Dell Data Assistant documentation page.

In this document, the term data refers to the files and settings that you want to migrate. The term old PC refers to the PC from which your data is migrated and new PC refers to the Dell PC to which your data is migrated.

Dell Migrate enables you to migrate your personal files such as documents, photos, music, videos, and so on. The following table lists the settings that can be migrated:

Table 1. Settings that can be migrated using Dell MigrateThe following table lists the settings that can be migrated using Dell Migrate.
Type Settings
Date and time
  • Additional calendar and clocks
  • User locale
Personalization
  • Background
  • File Explorer Options
    • General
    • Folder views
    • Advanced
  • Taskbar
  • Colors
Hardware
  • Phone and Modem
  • Fax options and accounts
Bookmarks
  • Favorites in Internet Explorer
  • Bookmarks saved in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge version 79 or later
User Control
  • Mouse properties
    • Primary and secondary buttons
    • Pointer schemes
  • Keyboard
    • Character repeat delay
    • Character repeat rate
    • Cursor blink rate
  • PC sound
    • Playback
    • Communications
    • Sound theme
  • Gaming
Accessibility
  • High contrast
  • Magnifier
  • Color filters
  • Toggle keys, sticky keys, and filter keys settings for keyboard.

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