Yer can easily create yer own short cuts on yer desktop.
Yer gorra virus checker running onnit?
Second point is a good one. At the mo i am just disconnecting it from tinternet so it can't pick any bugs up.
I do have, when I can find it, a good seperate hard drive sort of data storage thing I can use to transfer lots of folder/files one in one go.
It came with all my desktop shortcuts on, he put it in a folder called "old desktop" but it don't seem to connect to f all, as I don't expect many of the programs are running on the new pooter.
What I will do is shove one or two example files of each type and then see what will open them. then if I cannot do it easily, I'll have to think again.
Some progs I may be able to download off tinternet. I suppose.
Others I dunno. I don't know if it is possible to copy progs running on Windows 8 to a Windows 10 machine, whether they would work or whether they would simply bugre summat up.
Google is my friend to a certain extent.
I will have to buy a virus checker for it anyway before I start doing any of this.
I also have a big hard drive back up thing running all the time which automatically stores a copy of anything I produce, which isn't very intuitive to use, but in some ways I'd quite like to see if it would be possible to use it to shove copies of all my data on the new pooter. It's a WD My Book Live, if that means anything to anyone!
All good fun!
Edit, nothing wrong with your first point either, but I can do that, even thick old me. Didn't mean to be rude or nuffin!