Windows 10: windows 10 and new install, old programs

Considering:

1 a clean, new install always works great;

2 that does not take too much time;

3 but it requires all programs to install again;

4 and that can take a lot of time:

- finding the installation files;

- finfing the keys needed for installation;

- having not forgotten to de-register the progams when needed to do so;

- the installing itself;

5 as the registry contains all information about installed programs;

6 as keys from the registy can be exported and . . . imported.


Would it not be great if one could install a new, clean windows 10 and,

having all wanted programs on another disk, to simply import the needed

keys into the newly made registry and let those programs be recognised

and executable?

I would appreciate that a lot:

a I like to experiment with pre-releases of windows;

b I hate it when, after installing a regular windows version, I must follow

point 1-6 of above list;


Addendum:

Remember: when one upgrades all programs and data can and will be saved . . . .

and remain usable.

Why, oh why can one not go from a pre-release to a regular release (mind

you: a pre-release has a date-stamp . . . . .) whitout all the fuss herefor

mentioned.

Microsoft: please, please make it so that a pre-release also needs an activation

keys preferably the same as the one(s) for a regular release!!!

That could solf at least a whole lot of obstacles.





And, to be sure: yes I have several pc's (with windows a.o. ;-)


But, hey, you should be able do it if no one else can . . . . .


And (again and): I fear that putting all in the cloud (whose cloud????)

will make things worse and worse for all consumers, especially those

who like to experiment.

I wonder how Microsoft engineers cope with these matters.....

I mean, having still more work to perform is not bad but what

about doing work efficiently?


Chris de Boer

(since the D-age, dinosaur? no DOS....)

:)

 

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