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A few years back, when I was planning a move to a new hardware system, I purchased a copy of the Laplink software because it had lots of good recommendations. On my system it completely failed to move anything; it simply wouldn’t function. After various unsuccessful attempts to get the software to do anything I contacted Laplink to organise a refund and they said they couldn’t help me; I had to go through the vendor I had purchased it from. So I contacted them who told me, basically, “tough luck, not our problem”. With no easy options available to me to force somebody to honour the “money-back guarantee” I had to just accept that I had lost the money and wasted my time. I ended up doing the PC move manually which was merely time-consuming, not fatal, and probably gave me a better system any way.

I personally cannot and will not recommend the Laplink transfer software to anyone for any purpose.

FYI, I built a recovery drive for my PC just the other day, and it insisted on a 16Gb flash drive as the minimum size. It took a good while to build it, too, as you indicate in the article. Had no issues or problems with it though; I tested that I could boot with it and access the various options. Very handy thing to have available!

I’m using Comodo for firewall and it seems to be working fine. I was using it before the upgrade, after the upgrade it wouldn’t work until I downloaded the most recent version, but otherwise no particular issues that I’ve noticed so far. I was running 64-bit Win7 Ultimate before, now running 64-bit Win10 Pro.

For antivirus I use eSet, which again needed an update before it would work correctly, but otherwise no problems noticed so far.