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Does Windows offer a migration tool, that migrates applications as well as user data? User registry tweaks too?
I know that in the 1990's, Quarterdeck software offered a program called "CleanSweep", that monitored software installation, and could assist in clean un-installs, as well as package up apps and data files into a single archive that could be easily moved between PCs[/i]. Pretty certain that MS pressured them to remove that feature, because it made Windows' app installations as easy as .deb packages in Linux.
I've got a potential client on an older laptop with Win7, and if upgrading that laptop in-place doesn't go well, they may want me to migrate the (business) apps off of that laptop and onto a shiny new Win10 one. They may also not have the original installers or license keys for the programs in question.
I know that in the 1990's, Quarterdeck software offered a program called "CleanSweep", that monitored software installation, and could assist in clean un-installs, as well as package up apps and data files into a single archive that could be easily moved between PCs[/i]. Pretty certain that MS pressured them to remove that feature, because it made Windows' app installations as easy as .deb packages in Linux.
I've got a potential client on an older laptop with Win7, and if upgrading that laptop in-place doesn't go well, they may want me to migrate the (business) apps off of that laptop and onto a shiny new Win10 one. They may also not have the original installers or license keys for the programs in question.