Hi all. I was interested in reinstalling my Windows 10 from scratch, but I wanted to know if it was possible to backup each program's data and settings so I can restore them as needed easily. Is there any tool that does that. I remember something that does just that but it only has a certain list of programs that work with it. Any help is appreciated Thanks
AFAIK, the developer is updating the apps supported. I think, it's quite a bit of work because it need to be done manually for many apps, and there will be no a general rule for to do that! Just check what apps are supported!
cool thanks again. Yea the last time I used it was quite a while back so I'll look at it again right now to see what new apps are in there.
Overall, that apps isn't a 'normal' Backup Apps! It's designed for to use to transfer Apps from one installation to a other! That will require also to 'backup' the related Registry settings and more! In general, even what it could do right now, it would be a huge help already. And if I'm not wrong, it's also Freeware! AFAIK, it's the only available Apps, which could such job!
Okay, it's a given that I'm stupid. After numerous attempts, including reading the help file, I still can't get cloneapp to work. I want to clone app. "ABC" from the source computer to the destination computer. Both computers are Windows 7 with identical user accounts. On my last attempt, I did as follows: Source computer: Extracted cloneapp folder to the desktop. Ran cloneapp at elevated level. Cloneapp listed app. "ABC" as being installed and supported. Made a backup of app. "ABC" - Cloneapp reported success. Made a copy of the Cloneapp folder. Destination computer: Copied the Cloneapp folder to the desktop. Ran cloneapp at elevated level. Selected the "ABC" backup. Did a restore - cloneapp reported success, no errors. But even that did not work. I do now have an "ABC" folder in the Program Folders directory, but all it contains is a bunch of cloneapp data files. My app isn't there. Can someone a quick outline of how to properly use cloneapp? Thanks.
Okay, just to prove to myself that I get it now, I did a fresh Windows 7 install. Then I copied my cloneapp folder (with saved settings) to the desktop. Then I installed ABC.EXE with trial license. Ran cloneapp restore. There were a ton of existing files and folders - I overwrote everything. Ran ABC.EXE and yes, no trial mode, it was full lifetime license - sweet! Thanks again.
Better of switching to portable apps where possible. 3/4 of all my programs used, are portable apps now especially browsers (which means browsing sessions are save & continue). So moving systems or reinstalling has become nothing but a breeze.
Why not use raid in mirror config or backup your complete disk you never have to worry about losing stuff
There's somewhere an apps, which let you turn most Apps into a Portable Apps, don't remember the name of that apps! If you have a lot of Ram, and you build a RAM Disk, you could use that for to run some Portable Apps with a much better performance, like Games or Graphics. A friend mine is using a 32GB Ramdisk for his Flight Simulator. Portable apps, for sure, having a lot advantages of fully installed Apps. And just copy all those Portables to an external Storage (USB, eSata, etc.) or even Server, will save a lot of 'headache' of re-installation!
On my server I use RAID 1 (Mirror), BD (50GB) Backup incremental (every 3h new and changed data) and TAPE 80GB (daily and weekly, both full), and so I do on my customers place! RAID 1 alone isn't good enough in corporate system! Just @spidernz is right too! In case of reinstallation, which may need to be a clean install, without any rubbish on it, the use of Portables is the best solution!