BonzaiDuck

I'm leaning in your direction with this. The configuration of hardware and software goes back to 2017 on this system. Licenses have...

I can agree with that. I just go slow, so I avoid getting things in a tangle.

And to gunrunnerjohn and all the rest. We need a bottle of Calvados or Slivovitz, a tablespoon, some sugar, some heavy glass goblets...

I was basically saying that many people who may have purchased and used a "PC" at turn of the millennium don't have the patience for...

UPDATE: Forgot to mention that for the exorbitant price of $13, through an outfit called "PremiumCDkeys", I purchased a "retail"...

The old hardware and the OEM OS bound to it is a machine registered as one of three or four on my MS Account. I log in to that system...

I DO understand the logic of that and didn't realize there are some places where more "mainstreamers" can build their own. Most of my...

Also good input, reminding me as to complete preparations. As I said -- I go under the assumption that I "build them better" than the...

I would first backup the disk, just in case, and then try to move it to the new hardware. If the disk is SATA and you have an NVME slot...

Thank you. Thank you very much. I might THINK I'm an old veteran and expert, but I'm humble, I'm old with memory starting to fail, and...

Only OEM licenses are hardware bound, so it doesn't really matter when you use the retail key to activate and you have a large number of...

I'm hoping there is someone with enough experience who can give me pointers as to how to avoid trouble with my hardware swap. My system...