System Transfer Help

khodex1997

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I just bought a brand new computer and i was wondering if there is a quick easy way to copy all my programs and files off onto my external drive so i could transfer it to my new drive. I would literally like to copy everything but the operating system because i am going to be upgrading from windows 7 to windows 8. I was wondering if maybe there is a program for this or something? Thank you in advance!
 
Solution
No. What you seem to be trying to do....move/clone/image/whatever....all your 'applications' from one OS to another cannot be done.
You can copy your data like documents, audio and video files... But you cannot copy installed programs, because most of them write to registry of OS or into numerous hidden folders. You will need to install all those applications again after clean install of OS.