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Please complete the following: 1. Clean your computer desktop |
Step 1 - Clean your computer desktop
We recognize that users like to save items to their computer desktop for easy access, but this data is not backed up. For the upgrade, except for shortcuts, please remove all traces of files or folders from your desktop and move them to either My Documents folder, your department shared drive or your personal thumb drive. Files such as Office documents, pdf's, images, music files, data files, zip files, etc should all be removed. Personal music files (MP3's) are not allowed to be stored on My Documents or department shared drives.
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Move files, folders, pictures, etc to your My Documents or personal | Make sure you only have shortcuts on your desktop |
Step 2 - Backup your personal data
If you have personal information on your computer's local drive (C drive), please copy this data to your thumb drive or disk. During the upgrade any data you have stored on the computer's local drive will be erased. Therefore, make a copy so you can put it back on after the upgrade. If you are using My Documents folder only, this step does not apply to you.
Step 3 - Make a list of personal software on your computer
Our office will provide all of the software that we license, install and support. It is your responsibility to make a list of the personal software that you have installed on your computer and reinstall it once your computer has been upgraded.
| OTM will provide and install all standard software that we license and support. |
Step 4: Send an email confirming completion of the above tasks
Once you have finished the steps above, please email
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