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Home Updater: Our Free Product for Consumers => Home Updater: General Discussions and Questions => Topic started by: efixLew on March 13, 2019, 10:37:01 AM

Title: Can I use Patch My PC to "copy" programs to new computer?
Post by: efixLew on March 13, 2019, 10:37:01 AM
I love Patch My PC for updating existing software, and I know it will also install new software if you select it.

Is there a way I can run it on an existing computer to "gather" a list of installed software, then run it again on a new computer to have it fresh install the supported software that was on the old computer?

Thank you!
Title: Re: Can I use Patch My PC to "copy" programs to new computer?
Post by: Support Team (Patch My PC) on March 13, 2019, 11:20:36 AM
Please check out the second video https://patchmypc.com/home-updater-documentation
Title: Re: Can I use Patch My PC to "copy" programs to new computer?
Post by: efixLew on March 13, 2019, 12:28:55 PM
I learned a lot from watching that video, thank you.

It seems the closest I can come to what I'm trying to do is on PC1 scroll down the list, right click on each piece of currently installed software, and choose "Add as auto-install in PatchMyPC.ini" for each one (while mentally counting until I match the number at the top to make sure I don't miss any).

There is no "add all currently installed software inventory to PatchMyPC.ini" (or something similar), correct? I don't want to manually choose or dictate what gets installed on PC2 as much as I want to tell PC2 to mirror whatever was on PC1.
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