Piracy-enablement risk: Users frequently report having to re-authenticate, re-authorize, re-register and re-authorize software applications migrated using PCmover.Regardless, it's asking a lot of any product to attempt migrating an unlimited number of software, application and setting configurations from one hardware platform running one OS to another wholly disparate box with different hardware and often a different operating system. Technology professionals recognize it's the computer's motherboard bus limitations, hard disk speed and corresponding USB standard that dictate transfer speeds, not the cable. For example, some users blame slow transfer speeds on Laplink having included USB 1.1 cables with some versions of the software. Some of the blame is directly related to users' lack of knowledge and expertise. Doesn't always work: Numerous user-related experiences posted publicly on the Internet suggest PCmover doesn't always work as advertised.
Unique serial numbers are generated for each migration instance.
The license cannot later be used to migrate the second installation to a third workstation. Thus, when purchasing a softare license for the product, that license is good for migrating one Windows system to one other machine.
Unfortunately, as Dante recorded so famously within The Divine Comedy, those guilty of laziness risk forever lamenting within the Fifth Circle of Hell or at least configuration hell.
Laplink's PCmover, with its migration assistant designed to move user profiles, data and applications easily from one PC to another, aims to make the process straightforward. As every IT practitioner knows, desktop migrations are either simple, straightforward affairs or wearisome flirtations within Hell's innermost circles.