Hi everyone,
I've been running a Win10 desktop for some time now, but needed another, more powerful one. (Both are custom-built, with its own Windows 10 Pro license.) The two machines will be used "interchangeably" between my wife and I: when I need to do video editing and 3D work, I'll use the newer one; when my wife wants to play a demanding game, she'll use it. .. But that's not to say that I won't be doing work on the old one or that she won't play the games on it.
In order to have access to all files on both machines, I'm going to clone my data drives to new ones, and will then keep them synched up with FreeFileSync. (That's easy.)
My questions though, are these:
1. What's the best way to copy my Windows settings (i.e. desktop layout, preferences from Settings and Control Panel, etc.) to the new machine? (Is it even worth the bother, or should I just take an hour or whatever, to do my best to match them up?)
2. Even more importantly, is there any way to keep these settings in sync, so that there's little to no difference between the two? (I understand that I can't "copy" installed applications, and that I'll lose scratch data from Premiere and whatnot... unless.. hmmm.. I guess I could keep all that on one drive and just hot-swap when I need to... that would work, no?)
Thanks a lot,
Dany
I've been running a Win10 desktop for some time now, but needed another, more powerful one. (Both are custom-built, with its own Windows 10 Pro license.) The two machines will be used "interchangeably" between my wife and I: when I need to do video editing and 3D work, I'll use the newer one; when my wife wants to play a demanding game, she'll use it. .. But that's not to say that I won't be doing work on the old one or that she won't play the games on it.
In order to have access to all files on both machines, I'm going to clone my data drives to new ones, and will then keep them synched up with FreeFileSync. (That's easy.)
My questions though, are these:
1. What's the best way to copy my Windows settings (i.e. desktop layout, preferences from Settings and Control Panel, etc.) to the new machine? (Is it even worth the bother, or should I just take an hour or whatever, to do my best to match them up?)
2. Even more importantly, is there any way to keep these settings in sync, so that there's little to no difference between the two? (I understand that I can't "copy" installed applications, and that I'll lose scratch data from Premiere and whatnot... unless.. hmmm.. I guess I could keep all that on one drive and just hot-swap when I need to... that would work, no?)
Thanks a lot,
Dany