Greetings,

Some considerable time ago, the following was posted can't remember to
which list as I saved it removing all the lines unconnected with the
subject matter in which I was interested.

I will paste in the text and then comment so please read to the end before
replying.

How to copy internet settings from one machine to another.

Ian Dawson wrote:

I've just done it for my daughter, but I needed sighted help.

1. Go into My Computer and then into Dialup Networking.
2. With the mouse, right click on your ISP's icon (e.g. Blue Yonder in my
case) and drag it to a floppy disk and select copy.
3. Take out the floppy disk and put it into the new computer.
4. Open the floppy disk and right click on the icon for the ISP and drag it
to your desktop, and select copy.
5. Select properties for this new icon on your desk top.
6. find the modem tab. This should list your old modem from your original
PC but also the modem for the new PC.
7. Select this new modem, and select OK.

That should do it! You will have to re-enter your user-id and password as
these are not brought across in the Internet property file.

For some reason the normal hot keys for copy and paste only give you a
short-cut icon which doesn't contain any of your internet properties. The
mouse method of copy and paste seems to have a different functionality.
Hence the need for sighted help.

Hope this helps. It certainly worked for moving from Windows 98 to a
Windows ME system.

** My comments **

Yes, I am doing just that but what I would like to know, is there any way
of copying such things as i.p and server and other settings or will these
be taken across using the above method?  Is there a more blind-friendly
method of achieving this?

Thanks.


Colin R. Howard.


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