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Glenn 8675309
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December 22, 2025
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Preparing for a new computer

  • December 22, 2025
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I'm getting a new computer on Christmas.    I've begun preparing to transfer things over.

I've made backup copies of all my downloads, printed out all my passwords (you just export the passwords as a csv file), made backup copies of the 200+ brushes I've downloaded, and backup copies of all the other silly things I've added to PSE.

I just use the free version of MS office 365- not too worried about that stuff-(I have access to the full version of all the office 365 apps thru my school account)  I honestly don't have any idea what my FB login / password is- but it's on that list I printed out.

On Christmas eve:  I will logout of all Adobe products, to deauthorize them- Adobe creative cloud, photoshop, and the 10 versions of pse I currently have installed, Adobe Express, all adobe products-  I'm pretty sure I just will log out of Creative cloud, and that will deathorize all Adobe products-  I will go thru each anyway- just to be sure.

I still have to go thru individual programs- such as my cloning software, and some other software that moves files around.   

There are some programs that will get reinstalled imediately on the new computer:  My screen capture utility, a utility that lets me see thumbnails of brush files (That's a great little program I paid $10 for), my scanner software, stuff like that.

MS flight sim 2020?  That's 345GB` all together (I've bought a buch of things for that).

I've also searched all my hard drives for all PSD files- and made a backup copy on an external hdd.

All my photos?  I've allready have copies of copies, but made another copy- just in  case and I've spread out all the copies on 3 different hard drives.

I have pretty good speed on my internet now- Average download speed is about 180MB/Sec.
WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT?  I will just redownload what I need fro my Adobe account- even though I have all the installation files of all the previous versions.

On Christmas day:  I will yank out the SSD's out of the old computer and slap em in the new computer-  you can't use the programs that are on those hard drives-  over time I will gut what I don't need. 

I have the luxury of prreparing for a new computer, at least I'm not stuck with a dead computer and no way to deactive old stuff.  

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Greg_S.
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December 22, 2025

Sounds like it will take you until after New Year to get it fully up and running.  😁 Happy Christmas, Glenn!

Glenn 8675309
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December 22, 2025

I will be doing a little bit  here, a little bit there... no school til Jan 5th.