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Corel SmartMove was a part of the Corel Linux. This application used to provide.
# Migrate Microsoft Windows settings to Corel Linux.
# Automate restoring settings that are changed by SmartMove.
# Provide an easy way to access network folders through Corel Linux.
What it did
SmartMove looks for existing Microsoft Windows installations on the machine, looks a little further for individual users, and offers to transfer application settings to analogous programs under Linux. It understands how to deal with Internet Explorer and Netscape cookies and bookmarks, Outlook, mIRC, and ICQ settings, and a variety of desktop preferences, including wallpaper, color scheme, and even mouse "handedness". We tried it out with a few settings, but since our Windows installation was fairly new, we didn't have much to check against.
SmartMove was built around the Wine libraries in order to be able to read the Windows registry settings for the Windows applications and thus be able to migrate them. SmartMove core libraries created a wrapper for the Windows registry to easily lookup the settings.
External link
With the death of Corel Linux, this application faded away and is no longer maintained.
* http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/previews/2159/4/
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