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I have a new drive with a clean installation of windows 11 pro. Is there a way I can migrate my programs and files from the old disk with windows 11 home to the new drive without losing anything?

With the clock counting down to October 14, 2025, millions of PCs face a stark choice: upgrade to Windows 11, pay for a short-term safety net, or keep running an increasingly risky, unsupported Windows 10—while the debate over hardware compatibility, drivers and sustainability suddenly looks...

Windows 11’s monthly updates are essential, but they can also break critical functionality without warning — the August 2025 Patch Tuesday cycle proved that once again, and the fallout shows why every Windows user and IT team needs a tested recovery plan before applying patches. Background /...

File system errors on Windows 10 and Windows 11 can look cryptic — a terse message, an error code, or “The parameter is incorrect” when you plug in a USB stick — but they usually point to fixable problems with system files, disk metadata, or the drive itself. This guide consolidates proven...

Windows still includes a built‑in backup utility that many users overlook, and while it’s not the slick, cloud‑first tool Microsoft pushes today, it remains a practical way to create scheduled local backups and full system images—if you understand its limits and use it carefully. ows...

Windows on the desktop still ships with three distinct ways to protect personal data and system state — the modern Windows Backup (OneDrive-backed), the long-lived File History incremental file versioning tool, and the legacy Backup and Restore (Windows 7) system-image facility — and choosing...

Windows still ships with a legacy backup utility tucked inside Control Panel — Backup and Restore (Windows 7) — and while it's not glamorous, it can still do meaningful work: granular folder backups, scheduled runs, and full system images for bare‑metal recovery, provided you understand its...

We all know that moment—you're ready for a virtual meeting, you click on your camera app, and nothing happens. Perhaps you've seen the dreaded error messages like 0xA00F4244 or 0x200F4244. If your camera is playing hard to get in Windows 10 or 11, fear not! Microsoft has a handy guide aimed at...

Creating a full backup of your Windows 10 system is the digital equivalent of safeguarding your most prized possessions in a secure vault. If a hardware malfunction, malware attack, or even an unexpected upgrade issue ever dares to disrupt your computer’s harmony, having a complete image of your...

Hi Everyone I just got my new Falcon Northwest computer. How fast is it? I just finished making my first System Image of it. I have everything installed now, and it's working great, but even I was surprised at this... For years, I have been telling everyone who will listen to put their...

I have a laptop... acually I have 20 lenovo T420 laptops. Same type but probably with some small differences. Diks are all SSD but diff. kinds. I have installed one of the laptops as I like it. Now I will install all the others so they are similar. I used MS system image which works fine, but...

Hi everyone! I don't know how many times over the years I've booted in safe mode, but I don't remember ever running into this before. In an effort to delete my Video Card folder (do to another problem posted here), I went to msconfig and clicked the button to reboot in safe mode. I then...

I've already done pretty much everything I can think of, and I can't diagnose this. Every thing seems to revolve around this error... Crash due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0006 - 'HUNG') I've even restored an earlier System Image to make sure that something hadn't crept into my...

Hi what different between creating restore point and creating system img? I see both go back and bring back files - programs - settings any explain?

Hi, everyone, In search of a problem that was causing Win 10 to lock up on my XPS13 9343, I enabled driver verifier. Predictably, this is now generating BSODs. This is the expected diagnostic behavior, I gather. The problem is, I have not been able to to get into Windows in any mode that will...

I want to remove the Windows.old file. I want to get rid of it before I make my System Image of the C:\ drive. It's 27.4 Gigabytes, and I'd like to not have to back it up. I don't need it, I have a System Image of the old drive already. I used to do it with Cleaner, but it doesn't show it as a...

Hi again, Well, I'm really liking Windows 11, I like how if you have two windows open, and you click on the one not showing it minimizes the one on top and expands the other, instead of putting the smaller one on top of the larger one maybe Windows 10 would do that two, but it wasn't on my...

Hi everyone... I upgraded my laptop, and it was easy, everything went smoothly, and now I'm thinking of updating my PC as well. Has anyone who has tried to update run into any problems with the process? If not, I may update my PC this week after I hear how it went for others, I really do...

Hello. I do a lot of cloning on all my machines, so far so good. I recently planned ahead and got a new laptop, to be able to go to W-11. Of course, I got one with Secure Boot. I am unable to do a clone any more as Acronis tries to boot from its USB media disk. I succeeded in getting rid of...

So once again, as throughout the history of windows, I need a fresh install. This time I actually care that all my applications / windows settings and user data are migrated as well after the fresh install of windows 10 pro on a new SSD. My current install is on a traditional laptop 2.5 disk but...