When you unpack your new HP computer, the first thing you’ll need to do is make it feel like home: transfer your apps, profiles and files from your old PC to the new HP. In this tutorial, we’ll see how to transfer everything from Dell to HP, Lenovo to HP, HP to HP – or any other vendor.

Of course, just copying a few basic files is far from enough. We’ll see how to keep your your programs, profiles, accounts, passwords, settings, documents, pictures, music, movies, favorites, and all of your files.

This works for any make or model of your old computer, and any model of your new HP, such as HP Pavilion, HP ENVY, HP Elite / EliteBook, HP Essentials, OMEN, Spectre, ProBook, HP Gaming and so on. Even if they have different Windows versions, such as transfer from a Dell Windows 10 to a new Windows 11 HP.

This tutorial is covers transfer to a new HP. If your new computer is not an HP, check out our guides for Transfer to new Dell, Transfer to new Lenovo, or a general guide for Transfer to New Computer.

Here’s what such transfer should cover:

Files, such documents, pictures, music, pictures and emails
Settings, such as user profiles, emails, accounts, passwords, favorites, bookmarks, wallpaper and other personalization
Programs, such as for example Microsoft Office (and Outlook for email), Google Chrome, Quickbooks, Adobe, and any other applications that you use on the old laptop

Let’s see how it is done.

Video tutorial – transfer from Dell / Lenovo to HP

How to transfer to a new HP laptop

Transfer to new HP no longer means wasting a weekend manually copying files, installing programs, setting up accounts, emails, personal settings and preferences. These days, there are tools that handle the transfer for you, automatically. We will be a tool called Zinstall WinWin for that (available here).

Here is how it’s done:

Run Zinstall WinWin on your old computer (the one you are transferring from).
Run Zinstall WinWin on the new HP laptop
1. You don’t need to do any configurations for the computers to connect – it’s automatic
2. If the computers are already connected to same router, same Internet connection, or same wireless connection, you don’t need anything else
3. If there is no way to get both computers online, you can still do the transfer, using Zinstall with USB drive. See here for transfer to new computer using USB external hard drive.
If you’d like to select which applications and files you want to transfer, press the Advanced menu. If you just want to transfer everything, you don’t need to go to the Advanced menu.
Press “Go” on the new HP laptop to start the transfer

That’s it! Once the transfer is done, you will have all of your files, your profiles, accounts, and of course your programs – on your new HP laptop. It’s that easy.

Ready to transfer everything to your new HP?

Get Zinstall WinWin here

You mentioned Dell to HP and Lenovo to HP. What if I have a different brand?

This process works the same for any computer make and model. We are simply mentioned Dell and Lenovo because that’s what we are most frequently asked about. But any Windows PC works, such as ASUS to HP, Acer to HP, and so on.

What if my old computer is a desktop workstation, not a laptop?

No change at all. You can transfer from a desktop to an HP laptop, from a laptop to an HP desktop and any other combo. Desktop and laptops are different physically, but in terms of how programs and files behave on them – there is little to no difference. So there is no problem to transfer from one to another.

Ready to transfer everything to your new HP?

Get Zinstall WinWin here