Changing from intel cpu to amd

[dgg125]

I'm aware that I would have to do a clean install of windows again for an existing PC but if I backup everything would it be plug and play with my applications on the new windows install or would I have to reinstall my applications. 

[dizmo]

You don't make any sense. You say you know you're doing a clean install...which would mean you're reinstalling the applications anyway.

[RONOTHAN##]

22 minutes ago, dgg125 said:

I'm aware that I would have to do a clean install of windows again

Not necessarily, a clean install isn't strictly necessary when swapping from Intel to AMD or vice versa, it's just recommended. My test bench has had the same OS on it for the past 3 years, and it's gone through dozens of motherboards and CPUs of both teams without issues. Windows 10/11 is pretty good about detecting hardware changes and adapting to them without having to reinstall. It's just that if you start noticing some weird behavior, a Windows reinstall would be my first troubleshooting step. 

 

25 minutes ago, dgg125 said:

if I backup everything would it be plug and play with my applications on the new windows install or would I have to reinstall my applications. 

If you reinstall Windows you need to reinstall all your programs, there's no way to restore previous applications. 

[dgg125]

13 hours ago, dizmo said:

You don't make any sense. You say you know you're doing a clean install...which would mean you're reinstalling the applications anyway.

Well that's why I'm asking. Because it's a clean install of windows and then putting my drive with all my applications into the pc. I wouldn't be asking if I knew.

[dgg125]

13 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Not necessarily, a clean install isn't strictly necessary when swapping from Intel to AMD or vice versa, it's just recommended. My test bench has had the same OS on it for the past 3 years, and it's gone through dozens of motherboards and CPUs of both teams without issues. Windows 10/11 is pretty good about detecting hardware changes and adapting to them without having to reinstall. It's just that if you start noticing some weird behavior, a Windows reinstall would be my first troubleshooting step. 

 

If you reinstall Windows you need to reinstall all your programs, there's no way to restore previous applications. 

So the applications I have on the backup drive work if I try to run them?

[RONOTHAN##]

30 minutes ago, dgg125 said:

So the applications I have on the backup drive work if I try to run them?

No, they won't. Installing applications on Windows requires you add both the application files and registry files to have it work. A backup cannot include the registry files, so the applications just won't launch. 

[dizmo]

1 hour ago, dgg125 said:

Well that's why I'm asking. Because it's a clean install of windows and then putting my drive with all my applications into the pc. I wouldn't be asking if I knew.

You'd have to reinstall them because there's (likely) files installed to the Windows directory that would no longer exist.