[geeks] Windows: move to new hard drive (forgive me)

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 @ 22:34 -0600, Lionel Peterson said:

> >From: Chad McAuley <chizad at gmail.com>
> >Date: 2006/12/10 Sun AM 11:54:38 CST
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Windows: move to new hard drive (forgive me)
> 
> > but
> >personally I think it's better
> >to just do a clean install.  By the time I'm doing a hardware upgrade, I've
> >been running the same
> >Windows install for 2+ years, so it's usually time for a clean start.
> 
> I agree, you could use a tool like Belarc Advisor [0] to secure
> most/all comercial software licenses then go about rebuilding...

What is Belarc Advisor?

Does it also do patches, mods, and configuration of apps?

That's what takes 99% of the re-install process for me.

Even games have massive patching and customization work.

If you use apps like Photoshop and are heavy into mods for it,
re-install is a nightmare.

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