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Old 05-17-2020, 4:58pm   #1
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Default How I upgrade a computer

So my giant tower with the 18 monitors has gotten a little long in the tooth. It's been operational for 3+ years, and has been experiencing blue screens of death lately. After so much time, you accumulate a lot of programs and data which you hate to lose, thus I have created a complete VMWare clone of this computer (operating system drive only), purchased a new (twice the size OS Drive "Samsung Pro SSD 860 2TB")

I install the core apps that I use (office, corel, zoom, vmware, ...) and away I go. I have a fresh computer, insanely faster than the old one, and I still have 100% access to the old one as a VM. This computer is too young to replace, but it needed this type of service. When I replace it, it too will become a VM and both VM's will be moved to the new tower.
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