I just bought a new HP computer this week and when setting it up, the new computer offered to copy the apps from the previous computer. That computer is also an HP and when I pressed the button, the new computer copied everything from the older one, including all of the data. I think that the two computers have to be within a few feet of one another for that to work. In the absence of that option, I would get a large capacity flash drive and copy all the data onto it and then copy it from the flashdrive to the new computer. From experience, I know that this is a fairly slow process but it does give you a separate backup for your data