Mario,
FWIW I have a different approach that has served me well for decades.

Whenever I upgrade my PC, I don’t rely on a utility program to “transfer all my programs” from the old to the new. Rather, I re-install them manually one-by-one.

This buys me three things. First, it ensures that the newly installed programs are the latest and most compatible with my new system. Second, there is zero probability that some 3rd-party utility program will mess things up. And third, in my manual re-install process, most likely I'll identify a piece of software I haven't used in years and most likely never will again. These programs won't get re-installed.

Another bit of housekeeping I do is avoid using any kind of compression software for backing up my user files. Back in the 90’s our company’s policy was to have us engineers use a compression utility which (supposedly) did compress our files but the problem arose when my hard drive died and learned that it couldn’t uncompress the files properly. As a result, I needed to reconstruct megabytes of user files and have never forgotten that lesson. So, I always backup my files in their native (uncompressed) format.

I’m guessing others have their own experiences and processes, but I have found that simple = reliable.


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