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Transfer legacy apps

What is currently considered the best (and easiest) way to migrate programs, settings, and so on to a new PC? I built my last machine back in 2009. Through the years, it has updated from Windows 7 to Windows 11 (with some effort), but has reached its limits. I have some legacy programs that currently work fine, but trying to re-install may not be possible due to the fact that they were supplied on diskettes. Ideally, I’d like to build a brand new machine and clone my existing unit—is that possible? Happy to pay for software. —David Sollish

 While it might be technically possible to clone your old hard drive and transfer it to your new PC, that will be fraught with difficulties, and likely cause other issues with an aging Windows installation,

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