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C_Mike
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I just installed my new SSD in my PC, and have installed windows 7 and a few other programs.

 

However on my old hard drive I had a ton of programs, that I don't particularly want to manually reinstall all of the programs.

 

I would like to know if there is a way of automatically detecting programs from my old hard drive, and putting them onto my start menu.

 

I hope that kind of makes sense :)

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I just installed my new SSD in my PC, and have installed windows 7 and a few other programs.

 

However on my old hard drive I had a ton of programs, that I don't particularly want to manually reinstall all of the programs.

 

I would like to know if there is a way of automatically detecting programs from my old hard drive, and putting them onto my start menu.

 

I hope that kind of makes sense :)

The only way to "put programs on a hard drive" efficiently is to install them. 

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I just installed my new SSD in my PC, and have installed windows 7 and a few other programs.

 

However on my old hard drive I had a ton of programs, that I don't particularly want to manually reinstall all of the programs.

 

I would like to know if there is a way of automatically detecting programs from my old hard drive, and putting them onto my start menu.

 

I hope that kind of makes sense :)

You will have to reinstall them all. No way around it.

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Some programs you can run without reinstalling, such as steam but in general its better to reinstall so they do their regedits and all that

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