1. Many people will file, send, receive and manage email that is crucial to their daily work or personal life
   
2. We make software work for us with hardware settings
   
3. Common software applications have toolbars and capabilities that we depend on
   
4. Internet settings and favorites cover many special Internet sites that get us online
   
5. Increased Productivity
   
6. A migration program should detect any changes from factory default and gather these changes
   
7. Many settings are stored by the Operating System
   
8. Moving these settings is usually time consuming and daunting, forcing people to give them up rather than try to maintain them

Many people will file, send, receive and manage email that is crucial to their daily work or personal life.
They store it in special folders or have special rules to track it. We use it to manage our time and as an archive of reminders. A typical reality check on how important this can be, is when we loose access to email for a short time and then are so thankful when it returns. Many of the small changes over the course of a couple of years, have molded this into a work of art that would be difficult to re-create.

We make software work for us with hardware settings.
A few common examples are a left-handed mouse, keyboard sensitivity settings for typing, display settings with font color, font types, themes and themes.

Common software applications have toolbars and capabilities that we depend on.
Increase efficiency, reduce the time to perform tasks and improve data that we use for many different work and personal uses. Small amounts of time customizing these applications would be difficult to re-create without help.

Internet settings and favorites cover many special Internet sites that get us online.
Banking, medical research, e-Bay or Amazon.com to shop, ESPN and CBSsportsline for sports, Local traffic information to disclose your route to work and home showing traffic area's to avoid, online banding, information gathering and more...

Increased Productivity.
Takes place over months of use, and personalizing your computer to allow people to be more productive. By gathering these shortcuts and special toolbars, folder structures, file locations and useful tidbits of data, we enjoy using our computers much more and find it a valuable resource tool.

A migration program should detect any changes from factory default and gather these changes.
Cataloging these changes and their locations will enable the movement of files associated with these settings and integrate them back into your new machine. To gather these changes on your own would require you to know how the settings have been changed, and where the file is located. How do you navigate back to these special settings. Some files are commonly hidden from the normal users, or set in the registry which could be a dangerous task to undertake without knowing specifics on what task is being accomplished. If you are going to use different versions of the same applications, these locations have commonly changed and need to be filed correctly without damaging the new software.

Many settings are stored by the Operating System.
Dial-up logins and passwords for using hardware or software common to get to the internet quickly and safely.

Moving these settings is usually time consuming and daunting, forcing people to give them up rather than try to maintain them.
What a waste! Migration software gathers these and moves them to your new machine where they go back to work, only better!! They now have newer, faster, fancier software to play with and you are more productive right out of the box.