>>Hi everybody,
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>>Ok, my laptop disk failed. I don't really have a backup or an image.
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>>Anyway, I got another laptop which originally belonged to another user who left the company. And I also got a new disk where Windows 7 is currently being installed the first time.
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>>The laptop from that user has Office 2013 installed, I configured Outlook today. It also has Team Viewer. It has SQL Server 2008 R2 installed for which I don't know passwords. And I installed Visual FoxPro today with SP2 and applying latest hotfix now.
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>>So, the question is - do I continue with that laptop from another user and adjust for me or install everything from scratch on my original laptop with the new disk?
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>>What would you chose?
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>The other user's former laptop (OUFL) is not trustworthy, you can't use that.
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>Whichever is the faster machine, use that. If it's the other user's, wipe it and start from scratch. If it's yours, start from scratch with the new disk.
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>If your boss complains about wiping OUFL, tell him/her it's standard practice in most corporate environments.


Looks like they are pretty close in configuration.

This is the OUFL

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DUSTY
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Precision M4500
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 840 @ 1.87GHz, 1867 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A12, 7/30/2012
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name dusty\Joaquin
Time Zone Central Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.99 GB
Available Physical Memory 4.85 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 11.7 GB
Page File Space 7.99 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys