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AOL password loss and change of PC

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Hello, could you tell me how to transfer all my downloaded software from my desktop to a Thomson laptop and how to reinstall my AOL mail service because I forgot my password

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Patrick Foucault

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    georges97 Posted messages 14627 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 944
     

    Hello,

    For the AOL password, see this page:

    https://www.mon-expert-digital.com/blog/communication/se-connecter-a-ma-boite-mail-sur-aol-mail.html

    For software, there is no global transfer option. Either they are commercial programs for which you have the certification key, and in most cases you have to uninstall each software and install them on the new PC.

    Or they are free software and you should go to the publisher’s site, download the executable offered for your Windows version to proceed with the installation. Not knowing which software you are referring to, it is impossible to say more.

    Only the data can be recovered by copy/paste (not cut/paste, to be avoided formally) preferably using an external USB hard drive or over the network (i.e., the router) if you master this type of transfer.

    There are disk transfer software options (never tried) but what I read mentions a number of caveats, and I would therefore not be able to discuss them in detail.

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    1. pfoucault28 Posted messages 4 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       

      thank you for your response but for AOL it won’t log in by passing through SMS I will try again tomorrow to see and a big thank you for your quick response as well

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      1. georges97 Posted messages 14627 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 944 > pfoucault28 Posted messages 4 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        Maybe you meant to say on the internet via smartphone because you will not have access to the page indicated by SMS. You must use the default browser installed on your smartphone or open a browser on your new PC.

        In any case, a browser will be necessary to access your mail (unless you install dedicated software, but I don’t think it is advisable to scatter before you recover your usual configuration.

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