Plugable USB 3.0 Transfer Cable for Windows PCs - High-Speed Data Transfer, Easy PC-to-PC File Sync, Compatible with Windows XP to 11, Includes Bravura Easy Computer Sync Software Product Key

This cable worked great! I am not tech savvy, but I had no problem at all following the easy directions. It took about 5 minutes to download the software, hook the 2 computers together, and hit run... It ran for about 45 minutes and the job was complete. The great thing is, I can use it again if I buy another computer. I hope in the future the software programs will transfer as well, but all pictures, songs, folders transferred quickly and easily.

Working in IT as a Level 2 support tech at a global enterprise corporation, data transfer is probably the 2nd most commonly performed task. Just from experience of working in IT on a team of 5-7 techs, it's very critical to get the job done right the first time and to get the job done correct. Most of the migration techs that were contracted for a few months to migrate computers in the evening from XP\Vista to Windows 7, all were instructed to stick to using USMT for transferring user data instead of cables like this one. After the mess that utility has created and the migration "rent-a-tech" guys have left, my whole team has been playing cleanup by performing the data transfer manually. As easy as it sounds, it becomes quiet the tedious chore when it has to be done on hundreds of different user laptops and even more so when they're encrypted with WinTragic's SecureFlop. I ended up writing a VBScript that I put into an HTA application with a few selection options that must be selected according to the job at hand in terms of stating which OS to which OS is the data being transferred. That solution worked excellently in many situations but at random times also failed to work at all. Which brings me to stressing the enormous level of importance this cable has proved to be. I have made myself a mental note to pay attention where I put this cable at the end of the day and immediately put the cable back into my carrying pouch I keep it in after completing the data transfer. After a few times I've used this cable, it became apparent to me that the software that it comes with is completely useless. It requires installation on both of the computers that the data is being transferred between and you have to enter the registration key into the software each time you install it. Not a big deal as you can install it many times using the provided key when transferring from any PC to any PC. But in my case, I can't leave it installed after I'm done and have to uninstall it after completing the transfer. That becomes a PITA if you have to do it multiple times everyday. But the reason I found it to be useless was because it doesn't allow you to access certain folders that it hides in it's interface like Outlook folders where PST files are located as well as the other location where NK2 file resides. So the way I found this cable to be the most effective tool of my trade was simply by plugging it into the new laptop(running Win7), the Windows Easy Transfer utility pops up immediately which will recognize right away that you're using a transfer cable so the next question is Which PC is this? Choose This is my New PC, then it will ask you if you have the utility set up on your old PC and in the answer choices, select the one all the way on the bottom of the list which says My old PC is running Windows 7. Plug the other side into your old computer, same utility will popup so on the first screen hit Next, the next screen select This is My Old PC, click Next and it will scan the old PC quickly which takes at most a couple of minutes if many people have logged into that PC. But this utility gives you the fine grained control of selecting exactly what you want to transfer, which user profiles you want to transfer if you're logged in as an Admin and need to transfer a user's profile with data of a user that's never logged into the new computer yet. Using this cable I was able to completely transfer my supervisor's manager's complete profile, data, mapped printers, favorites and just about everything else useful. She left the old PC with me while still being logged into it, not wanting to reset her password just to set up the new PC without asking since I had no way to contact her, I was able to use this cable to transfer everything to the new PC exactly as she had it on her old PC. The big sigh of relief was when she came back and went to log into her account on the new PC, it immediately logged her in to her account with her exact desktop as it was on her old PC. I highly recommend this cable if you do data transfers a lot on a day to day basis. Plugable Technologies is a solid manufacturer that makes some of the best quality adapters I've ever bought for computers. Never had any issues with the quality of their products so I don't know how good their customer support is to say much about it other than I can imagine it should be as excellent as the quality of their products that have been the most reliable tools I've grown dependent on to get my job done over the last few years.

Item worked well transferred all important information from one computer to the other. No complaints the only problem I have now is unless I purchase an other computer . I have no use for it.

Easy to use but it didn’t transfer my programs and only some data files

The program is very easy to work . It worked so easy I didn't realize it transferred the programs that fast.

Difficult to get started with this product. Instead of including everything in the package - you have to go to a website and download the software to it, which is no intuitive. The link is buried in a product brochure page with various options. This is especially a problem if your "old' computer is having issues and takes a long time to boot up. I finally got the two computers connected and followed the installation (which has to be done on BOTH computers separately), and 2 minutes into this ordeal, the computers lost contact with each other. No cable were moved, nothing was touched. I found this very frustrating, seeing that I chose a product that would be connected by cable one to the other, not by wifi, so there wouldn't be any connections issues. Going back with rebooting both computers, reinstalling the software, the computers never again connected. Going to the "help" page of the product website is not helpful at all. I even tried using ChatGPT to talk me through possible fixes, and some of these included updating firmware and long lists of "fixes" to try. This product is just too time consuming, and especially maddening when you have the "old" computer having problems, which is why you got a new one in the first place. I'm past my date to return the product, so now I'm stuck with it. Ack.

Three stars due to the cable being excellent. The software did not work. I bought a different brand of transfer software and used this cable and it was fine. The transfer took 8 hours, but it did a good job of getting settings right. Transferred over 300 GB.

We recently purchased a new laptop and needed an easy way to transfer all of our files and data from the old one. After researching different transfer options, I decided on the Plugable Data Transfer Cable—and I’m so glad I did. I ordered it on Amazon and it arrived the very next morning. Installation was simple. I followed the easy instructions to download the software on both laptops, then connected them using the cable. The cable includes both USB-A and USB-C ends, which made it fully compatible with both devices—no adapters needed, so it fit perfect! Once connected, the software opened a clear, user-friendly window where I could select exactly which files, photos, and data I wanted to transfer. It even gave me the option to set up the new laptop just like my old one, which I selected. The entire process took about 20 minutes, and when it finished, my new laptop looked and functioned just like the old one—everything transferred perfectly. The cable itself feels sturdy, well-made, and high quality. Overall, this was an incredibly smooth, fast, and stress-free experience. I highly recommend the Plugable Data Transfer Cable to anyone needing a reliable and easy way to move data to a new computer.