Windows 10: transfering an existing windows 10 hard drive with programs to a new windows 10 pc.

my network cable was hit by lightning and fried the mother board. The hard drive is ok. I was told I could use my drive in a new pc and not loose any programs or data on it. The drive is a SSD drive with a windows 10 system on it. I was told something about migrating the drive to a new pc. I have no idea what I am doing. The instructions I got were: boot up from windows 10 - change set up mode to Legacy?? and HDD to AHCI mode. Is this possible? I could really do with some simple instructions as I am not very pc literate. Could someone please help??

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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.

 

Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

I'm going to be building a new PC on Christmas and want to install Windows 10 on it. I have Windows 10 on my current PC, which I installed upgrading from 8.1 with the files on a USB. How do I go about installing a clean copy of Windows 10 on this new PC? I think I recall something about installing it once makes Microsoft recognize your hardware, but since this will be a PC I'm not sure what steps I need to take. Do I need to go 8.1 -> 10 or is there a method of going directly to 10?

 

Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

What's your intended PC specs ??