[nfbcs] Netbooks and transfers

[Jim]

Howdy,

 

After a lot of careful research, I decided to purchase a netbook.  I bought
one of the brand new Acer 1 computers, which seems like a pretty great
machine, for the money.  My goal is not to replace my fully working and nice
laptop.  It is to enhance it and to have a portable machine that is even
easier to carry around than my laptop.  Upward mobility.

Anyway, this has 160 gigs of memory, along with Windows XP.  I'd like to
take most of the programs and files from an old Toshiba computer that I have
and put them on this Netbook.  My Toshiba has been on its way out for a good
year and a half and is mainly used as an internet machine because it's very
slow and some of the programs don't work well.  .  I don't have a problem
transferring actual files.  However, there are a few programs on it that I
would also like to transfer.

The main program is MS Office 2003.  I can not find the CDs for it, and even
if I could, I don't have a CD drive on this netbook.  If I were to copy the
actual folder with the program and put it in the "Programs" folder, would
that work, and would the program run as it always does?  The copying of the
folders and programs would be done to a thumb drive which I could then plug
in to the netbook.  Something tells me that twhat I wat to do is easier said
than done.  Am I right?

Mainly, it would be nice to at least have MS word on here for word
processing.  Anything else is bonus.

I do have good audio on this machine.for its size.  I think it'll be a good
media machine.

 

Thoughts?

Jim