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I just did this too. My old computer died (power supply fried, which then blew my mbd, memory, and video card), so I bought a new smoking system.
After many years of upgrading things, the *only* good solution is to re-install everything. I keep all of my downloaded utilities in a "download" directory, and *all* of my personal files in another "data" directory tree. That way, once I re-install all of my stuff, I can just copy the entire data directory tree over, and all of my data files are there and not lost or forgotten about.
Re-installing all of the applications that I use often only took about 3 hours; the rest of the junk I used to have installed can be re-installed as I need them. It's really not that big of a deal, and my registry isn't cluttered with crap from applications that I used once 3 years ago.
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