Dear faculty and staff,
Your office computer is being upgraded to Windows 7. Please find specific instructions below that require action on your part. Completing these steps is essential in making sure you do not lose your data and the upgrade is painless.
Please complete the following:
STEP 1. Clean your computer desktop
STEP 2. Backup your personal data
STEP 3. Make a list of personal software on your computer
STEP 4. Send an email to otm@suffolk.edu confirming completion of the above steps
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.
Once you have cleaned your desktop, empty your computer recycle bin and then restart your computer. If you do not restart, the changes you make will not be saved.
BEFORE CLEANING | AFTER CLEANING |
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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
confirming completion.
NOTE: It is important that you follow and complete these steps. If you do not, it is more than likely that you will lose files during the upgrade. If you need assistance or have questions please email us at otm@suffolk.edu or call x8524. We are ready to help.