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Old 07-15-2016, 08:52 AM
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Try contacting the Connected Villager computer club, they have a couple of people that will help you. There are also some companies in the area that may be able to help.
On a personal note, I have upgraded computers too many times to count, and I have always dreaded the experience. What I have done is to have both PCs next to each other, reinstall the software from the original disks, do any upgrades, and make sure everything is working. Then transfer over you work files, either by thumb drive or a USB to USB TRANSFER cable. It has been several years since I used the windows file transfer wizard, but as I recall this is for data files only, you cannot transfer installed software.
Once you have the new PC working with you new software and files, then manually transfer the missing files with your personalization's. This will probably take some time and effort as these files tend to be very well hidden.
The current versions are so complicated that I know of no way to accomplish what you want to do.

There are several people on this site that are much more knowledgeable that I on the details of windows and I am hoping that they reply with additional information.
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