£95

New computer set up and everything moved across

A new machine spends its first evening asking questions: accounts, updates, a printer that worked yesterday, twenty years of photographs still on the old one. The set-up takes all of that off your hands and hands back a computer that is ready to use, with the old one either wiped or kept as a spare.

Most set-ups take a single visit or a day with the machine, depending on how much there is to move. The old computer is needed for the transfer and comes back with the new one, and you are shown where everything ended up before the job is signed off.

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What the £95 covers

One fixed price, whether the machine is a budget laptop or a workstation:

Unboxing, first start, every pending update and driver installed
Your Microsoft or Apple account, email and cloud storage signed in on the new machine
Files, photos, documents, bookmarks and email moved across from the old computer
The programs you actually use reinstalled, with licences carried over where they can be
Printer, scanner and Wi-Fi connected
A backup set up, local or cloud, so the move never has to be done from scratch again
The manufacturer's trial software and adverts removed
The old machine wiped securely if it is being sold or passed on

Moving over from Windows 10

If the new machine replaces one still on Windows 10, the move is the natural moment to leave it behind: Windows 10 stopped getting security updates in October 2025 unless the machine was enrolled for extended updates, and most were not. Where the old machine qualifies for Windows 11 and is worth keeping, the upgrade with an SSD is £85 plus the drive instead.

Windows, Mac, or a switch between them

Set-ups cover Windows PCs and laptops, Macs, and the move from one to the other. Switching platforms is where most data gets lost in a do-it-yourself transfer, because mail, photo libraries and browser profiles live in different places on each. That is handled, and the result is checked with you.

Before you buy

If the machine is not bought yet, a short conversation about what it is for usually saves money: the right amount of memory and storage, a screen that suits the work, and whether a refurbished business laptop would do the job better than a new consumer one. There is no commission on anything recommended.

What it costs

The set-up and transfer is £95 fixed, for any make and model, and it includes the backup. Where a job goes beyond it, for example a business machine joining Microsoft 365 or a very large photo archive, you are told the extra time before it starts. A machine that only needs Windows reinstalled is covered by a visit or a drop-off at the hourly rate.

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