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Can 2015 allow me to move my old win 7 software to a new haswell cpu/mb/gpu build? I was told by one frys tech no way and a microcity tech saying "yes with a acronis 2015". If possible a summary of steps would be nice. Drivers have been updated and backed up seperately.
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The answer to your question is yes and no.

Using Universal Restore, you will be able to restore an image of your current system to a new PC/motherboard.

However, Windows may require reactivating or a new licence purchased (Microsoft consider a new motherboard to mean a new computer). Depending on how other software you may have is activated, you may find node locked software will require unlocking.