How to clean install 10 and then bring in my programs ...

martygene · 16 Nov 2015

i want to do a clean install of win10, meaning that i will format my SSD that has win7 pro 64 on it. how do i save my programs to another drive so that after installing 10 i can then bring in my programs without having to manually install each one from scratch. ? I have Acronis if that helps. i just dont want to do a restore from saved drives if it messes with the new 10 install. i'm just not sure how to go about this.
thanks

Kari · 16 Nov 2015

Hi Marty, welcome to the Ten Forums.

A short answer: you can't.

A bit longer answer: If you clean install, you need to reinstall all your software. You can only keep your installed software when doing an in-place upgrade.

Kari

martygene · 16 Nov 2015

Thanks Kari... I was afraid of that but i did think that was the case. I'm not sure what i will do now. Probably wait a while longer to do 10

topgundcp · 16 Nov 2015

@OP
Acronis has the option to create a bootable USB/CD allowing to boot your PC from it to perform backup/restore. So before clean install Windows 10, create a bootable USB/CD, make a backup image of your current OS to an external HD.

If you decide to roll back, just boot your PC from USB/CD and Restore from the backup mage.

dalchina · 16 Nov 2015

Hi, you should look at either of the following programs, which allow you to transfer most of your programs (and reg entries etc) from one OS to another (same word width only) or old build to new build etc:

Laplink PCMover; Easeus Todo Trans.

I've used the first several times very successfully. Don't use these for AV/Firewall or big games e.g.