You will probably want to uninstall the trial version that came with your new computer and install the 2003 version. However, unless I'm wrong the 2003 version could only be installed on one computer and when it's time to validate it you will have to contact Microsoft and explain the situation and hope they allow you to validate it on your new computer.

Because your Win8 computer has 64bit processor. Best advice for pes designs=Brother PED Basic reader/writer & card. Will cost abt $100 or thereabouts. Check eBay, Amazon, Walmart on line for competitive pricing. The card will write oodles of designs at a time, and will erase for new ones. However, only writes pes format.

Why don't you send the files/foldesr to a flash drive then simply put them on the new PC Plus on the new PC open IE as well as Edge and export IE's favs to Edge that way

mtvhike, don't you first want to ask how much data storage he's using and what kind of files they are? So I'll ask - big al, what kind of files do you have and how much space is being used in total? A file is a file is a file as far as a Windows version is concerned. File compatibility can be in issue with different versions of a program/application, but not with different versions within the same operating system family. And sometimes not between families either. I'm not a fan of having more than one internal drive, unless the extra space is needed for apps using very large files frequently accessed. That's true for few people. You're really better off having backups files disconnected and offline and not on the PC you're using ( to be safe from power surges) and with extra files on cheap external drives easily replaced.