A word of warning about Laplink PCmover Pro

If you decide to buy this product then just be aware that it is sold with a single use licence.
So you get one shot at transferring your settings and apps across a reset or fresh install of Windows.
If you're looking at this product as a means to facilitate resets or fresh installs then you will require to purchase a new licence for each exercise.
That said, it does do a pretty good job. Not 100%; I had a few settings and apps missed when I used it recently.

It's a trade-off of time vs money. In my case it saved at least 3 days' work - oh, and I had a free license for PCMover Image &
Drive Assistant. That used an existing disk image.

Clean install of Windows, + install selected programs automatically - rather than manually installing them.

But if you've only, say, Office, and a couple of others, it's not worth it.

I speak from experience of having done it both ways.. and in fact manually I'd still be picking up on bits and pieces after that. But that's just my experience, and that's with downloads kept, licenses carefully stored etc. The transition to 64 bits was manual of course.

Hence my preference for using a tool... which reduces the task to leaving it to run, then checking and filling in what's not been done or not done successfully.

DeaconFrost said:

Sounds like you could use some organization. I keep my drivers updated on a flash drive. I keep my basic apps update on the same flash drive. Any software license keys I store in a cloud service so I can access them anytime, anywhere.

You may feel free to make that unjustified assumption.

1. I have never lost anything significant since using 8" Shugart floppies that I can think of.
2. All my historic downloads are catalogued and searchable.
3. All my license codes are in an encrypted file readily accessible in Roboform- it takes me a few seconds to find one.
4. All my most recent downloads (over 18 months or more) are immediately to hand.

I would be very surprised if this is true. According to EULA you get a single user licence and you may only have it on one hard disk at a time which is a fairly normal restriction. I see nothing in the EULA to suggest it is a once use only tool.

There is a trial version which may well be timebombed.

What evidence is there to support this statement?