Two years ago when I went to rebuild my computer I would do the following;
- Backup all my personal files to a drive.
- Gather all my installs that I had download and put them on a drive.
- Get all bookmarks and favourites together so I wouldn’t lose them.
- Grab my mail files
- Format PC.
- Fiddled around with my drivers.
- Restore all that I backed up.
Here is what I did a few weeks ago when I had to do this;
- Format PC.
- Downloaded Dropbox and synchronized my files.
- Logged into Chrome and retrieved all my bookmarks.
- Fiddled around with my drivers.
What software did I really need to do re-install? Maybe 5 applications;
- NotePad++
- FileZilla
- Visual Studio
- SQL
- SLACK
The rest, I use online through a browser and even the above or merely out of habit and preference for their IDEs.
Fix my driver issue (please fix this issue) and I should be able to log into any computer, download my life and be up and running in minutes.
