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Best way to upgrade software/data to new computer
Hi all, I hope you can help me....my mom is in need of a new laptop. Her existing laptop, a Dell Precision m6500, is giving up the ghost, I think the system board or video card is bad, it just shuts down with no notice intermittently, even with nothing being done on the computer. (I checked cpu temps etc.). Anyway, it's time to get a new one, my problem is, she has a lot of very old apps, and she has data stored everywhere without any organization, so moving her apps and data to a new computer will be a very labor intensive, error-prone task. I have not done a Windows migration that was not just an upgrade on the same computer since the Windows 7 days, so I am hoping/praying lol that there is some reliable way, third party or otherwise, that I can migrate all her apps and data to a new computer without reinstalling everything one by one. It's worth it for me to spend a little money if Windows 10 doesn't directly support a nice migration to a new computer, ie buying some backup or migration software if it's reliable.
Do you have a recommendation? Thank you in advance for your thoughts!