Migrating programs to a new build

[smeghead66]

Hi was wondering if anyone could help, my neighbour is 85 and loves photoshop and has ordered a new pc build, which he recieved yesterday.

He has asked me if i can make his new pc look like his old pc, however his new pc has windows 10 on it his older one has win 7,

I have tried for hours to try to find a way of porting his many many many programs, and 1 tb of personal files to his new machine.

His personal files are no problem , obviously......but he want his programs over on his new build too.

And if possible his desktop to look similar.

I thought of maybe, installing windows 10 on his old hard drive then cloning it across to his new m.2 ssd.

however his uefi bios, will not allow me to get around a windows managment partitiion on it.

and certainly wont let me boot to the old hard drive to install windows 10 on it.

obviously i'm trying to make this as easy as possible for me ...i dont want to end up have to reinstall his many many programs

and start from scratch, does anyone have any ideas.

before you ask yes ive taken out the m.2, tried to boot from the flash drive with windows 10 on it but it wants to upgrade from the desktop,etc..and not through the flash drive...please reboot etc etc.

Amy help would be very welcome, cheers :)

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, smeghead66 said:

 

You can install classic start to fix the start menu

https://ninite.com/

Don't think you can really migrate programs

 

you can get CS2 for free here anyways
https://www.techspot.com/downloads/3689-adobe-photoshop-cs2.html

[LogicalDrm]

Best options for most software is to backup setting if there's such option. And if not, you can usually find config files from userfiles. I've moved to bit simpler settings scheme just because moving highly personalized settings is hard.