As I’m pretty sure most people will tell you the worst part of a clean install is having to reinstall all your programs. I’m about a half wit with computers. I’m not in IT at all but am on a volcano in a rainforest with a few people who know less than I do with computers but use them for a lot of critical work. So I’m the elected IT person though I’m not qualified. Were it not for Acronis we’d probably be two years behind in our project. I’ve just learned the trick to move your ‘My Documents’ folder to a different drive and consider that to be a big deal. And I wonder why there isn’t any software or procedure where you can migrate your whole ‘My Programs’ file into a fresh install or access the old one from a fresh install like you can with My Docs. Some programs I’ve found, like Perfect Disk and Registry First Aid and a few others can be moved right into a fresh install. You just open the program file and there’s a shortcut to the program in there and you just find it (there’s usually five or six likely looking candidates) and make a shortcut to the desktop and the program works. Or Acronis lets me backup sector by sector but I don’t think it would work to restore just the program file sector to a fresh install. Though I’ve not tried that, I just don’t have the time, it’d take me a whole day probably and also probably wouldn’t work or they’d be using it in their advertising. So, long question shortened to what’s the roadblock to moving the program files to a fresh install? I’d really like to do fresh installs periodically but have so many (128) programs, many of them licensed and well…..most of you should understand that. Help me out here. If it’s not been done the person who does it will be wealthy in short order. What am I missing in my logic?
