Moving to your new computer

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Moving to your new computer
Vic Fascio Technology Learning Center for ITS
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What well cover

• Clearing your space
• Preserving Docs and settings
• What ITS will do
• What you should preserve
• Files
• What you may want to preserve
• Favorites / Bookmarks
• Address books
• Other stuff on your hard disk

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Space Whats arriving

• Mid-sized tower case (can stand on or desk or
  floor)
• Flat-panel displays
• Only a few inches thick
• Light and movable
• Keyboard and mouse
• Square footage27 or so feet on each side

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Helping to clear

• Staff must be able to place new system
• Will remove old computer/monitor
• Place machine in area marked with your note
• Will not
• Move files, personal effects
• Sort through papers

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Clear space

• Clear space around present computerOR Clear
  space for your new computer
• Space requirements 27 - 3 feet square

27-3
27-3
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Clear computer/monitor

• Many of us use the computer as
• Bookcase
• Bulletin board
• Curio cabinet
• Meal tray
• Key holder

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A little cleanup

• Housekeeping
• Clear space for/around the computer
• Clear off your computer
• Speeds up delivery
• Organizes your space
• Shows consideration for rollout staff

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Why clear your space?

• No Cleanup No Computer
• Your materials are too valuable for ITS staff to
  move
• If space is not clearstaff will bypass your desk

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Clarify placement

• Tape your computer deployment notification note
  to the space where you want the computer

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Electrical Power

• Each computer comes with a surge protector
• Requirements
• One active 3-prong plug
• Within 6-8 feet of computer location

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Power Problems?

• No 3 prong Outlet?
• Outlet too far away?
• Power overloaded?
• Call Buildings and Grounds for work order
  239-3898

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Summary Clearing your space

• Be Prepared!
• Clear 27- 3 square desk spaceYour papers are
  too valuable for us to move!!
• Remove stuff from computer and monitor
• Check on 3 prong outlet 6 feet from computer
  location
• Alert Buildings and Grounds to power problems
  well ahead of time
• Leave note to clarify computer placement
• Thanks!

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Moving documents and settings

• What ITS will do
• Move My Documents to Old My Documents on your new
  computer
• Remove your old computer
• What you should do
• Move anything you want to keep into My Documents
• Help documents will be available on the Web for
  all these areas, off the TLC Web site
  http//www.ccsf.edu/tlc

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Documents

• Move or copy files into My Documents for ITS to
  back up for you
• OR Back up your documents onto your own disks
• Tips
• Move entire folders from other locations
• Most My Documents folder will fit on a Zip disk
• Dont wait until the last minute!

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Favorites / Bookmarks

• Saved URLs in Internet Explorer and Netscape
• Easy to export to a file
• Copy into My Documents or your own disk

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Address Books

• Address books problematic
• Web sites available foradvice (see Word Doc)
• Rekeying may be necessary.
• BUT New Email has a drag-and-drop database for
  CCSF folks Point and click to create new
  addresses and groups

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Address Books Printing

• For outside addresses in your old address book,
  protect yourself by printing everything out
• In pine, go to the Address book and hit to
  print to a UNIX printer. Youll have to print
  all groups individually with the command.
• Most other address books have a Print entry on
  the File menu
• If not (as in Netscape 4.7x), try File gt Export
  to save the address book as a file
• Choose .csv (comma-delimited)
• .csv files open in Excel
• If not .csv try tab delimited (can open in
  Notepad)

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Other settings

• C\Program Files\Netscape\Users holds Netscape
  settings and mail
• If you have Netscape Mail on your Hard Disk, copy
  this folder to My Documents
• Saves settings for multiple users

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Pine email and the fog server

• Fog will continue to be available
• Pine email overseen by system administrators
• Netscape or Outlook IMAP setup keeps mail on
  server

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Oops!

• If you find youve forgotten something
• Youll have a 1 week window to get back to your
  old PC
• Check documents soon on yournew computer

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Summary

• ITS saves My Documents to Old My Documents on new
  computer
• Copy everything you want ITS to save to My
  Documents
• Backup anything you want on your own disks
• Things to consider
• Files not in My Documents
• Bookmarks / Favorites
• Email