Stephen, I think you have a good grasp of what to do. (The order of the two steps is not important.) 1. Copy your PAF data files (they will normally have names ending in ".paf") from the flash drive to a folder of your choice on the hard drive. I copy them to Documents, other people create special folders for them. 2. Install PAF5 from http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/welcome/simplePAFRegistration.asp or go to https://www.familysearch.org/ > click Go to previous site > click Download PAF, and follow through with the prompted steps. Windows7 will install PAF in its x86 folder used for most 32-bit software. On my Windows7 laptop, Windows7 does not automatically recognize the PAF data files as belonging to PAF. This means that I need to open them from within PAF's file menu, rather than double-clicking the data file's icon. I usually use a single large PAF file, so I leave it open when shutting down PAF and it automatically re-opens the next time I start PAF. Except for this quirk, my PAF works identically on Windows7 (64-bit) and Windows vista (32-bit) -- Bill Buchanan website: http://billbuchanan.byethost17.com blog: http://billbuchanan.blogspot.com On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Stephen D. Carlile <sdcarlile@gmail.com>wrote: > I can use a word processor, email, and do some research on Ancestry.com, > but > in most other respects I am computer illiterate. My son just built me a new > computer and put Windows 7 on it. I had been using XP for the last several > years. He saved my PAF5 and other files on a thumb drive. I have a back up > on a Zip File or Disc. > > I now want to transfer my PAF files from the thumb drive to my new > computer, > the C drive, and expect that this may be more complicated than copying the > files from one thing to the other. I also know that I may encounter some > other problems, since there is more than one file on my thumb drive related > to PAF, and I do not know exactly which files I need to transfer and do not > know, other than they are going into the C drive, exactly what to name the > files, or where to put copy them to. > > I am thinking that maybe I can just download another fresh version of PAF5 > on my new computer, and then transfer just the data from my thumb drive and > not worry about transferring the PAF5 system or executive files (????). > > I was hoping that if I just download the fresh unused version of PAF5, I > could then export or import the information in my tree from my thumbdrive > to > the C drive. > > All of this is making my head swim. > > Can someone give me some suggestions on the easiest or best way to do this > without me losing any data? Thank you very much. > > One more thing, do I need to click, turn on, turn off anything in my > computer or the PAF files in order to make the program work efficiently in > Windows 7? Thanks again. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAF-5-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >