Windows 10: Is there any way to restore my windows account with all my folders, etc in my new PC?

My previous PC have problems with bios, I tried everything but didn’t work, or have a damaged hard disk and haven’t used it for two years so I can’t do a backup. I buy a new PC and want to restore all my folders, settings and apps but don’t know how to with a damaged PCIs there any way to restore my windows account in my new PC?

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Is there an easy way to transfer account information to a new account

It's not a common issue, and transferring your files to a new user account is easy.

You can transfer all your personal folders, namely:

• desktop (see below,)
• documents,
• music,
• pictures, and
• video.

What you see on your desktop is actually a combination of three things:

• the contents of your user account's desktop folder;
• the contents of the Public account's desktop folder; and
• Windows system objects, like the Recycle Bin.

The key to doing this successfully is understanding that your personal files belong to the user account where they are
now. Your new user account is completely separate. You know that both the old and the new user account are yours, but Windows doesn't know that, and that's by design.

The new user account needs to take possession of the files from your old user account, so those files will belong to the new user account. Once you understand this, the rest is easy. I'll give you a summary of the steps below. There's more than one way to
do this, but this method is easy:

1- Sign in to a user account with Administrator permissions.

2- Navigate to C:\Users\Public

The contents of the Public account are available to every other user account on the computer.

3- Create a new folder in C:\Users\Public

4- Navigate to your old user account and copy the folders described above to the new folder you created under the Public folder.

As soon as you try to open a folder in your 'old' user account, Windows will ask if you want to have permission to access that folder. The real question it's asking is: Do you want the Administrator account to have the same access to this folder as your
old account has? And the answer is yes, of course. Your old user account can move those folders anywhere it likes, and now your Administrator account can do that too.

5- As a precaution, try to open some of the files that you moved to the Public account, just to make sure everything transferred correctly.

6- Create a new user account.

7- Sign out of the Administrator account and sign in to your new user account.

8- Move the contents of the folders you copied to the Public account to the corresponding folders in your new account.

9- As a precaution, try to open some of the files that you moved to the new user account, just to make sure everything transferred correctly.

Now you can erase the folders from the Public account and delete the old user account.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.