A recent article on the XDA developers' website offers a helpful gloss on one of the themes of this thread: the tedium of installing software on a new Windows 11 machine. The piece -- https://www.xda-developers.com/made-simple-script-install-all-apps-new-pc-using-winget-you-can-make-your-own/ -- provides a template for a PowerShell script that uses winget to automate the installation process. All that's required of the user is to edit the template to include the package ID for each app you want the script to install. You can obtain the package IDs of your installed software with the "winget list" command, but a cleaner, more readable listing can be obtained by exporting the package names to a .json file with a command like: winget export -o d:\path\MyApps.json --accept-source-agreements Adjust the path and filename as desired; be sure to retain the .json extension. Read the .json file in any text editor. I used the template to create a PowerShell installation script for myself, listing several already-installed packages and a couple of new ones that I was interested in adding. I ran the script in a PowerShell session with administrator privileges, and the results were encouraging. The script accurately identified the software packages that were already installed, and installed the new ones without complaint. So this looks like a fine way to automate a good chunk of the process of replicating a Win 11 setup on a new computer. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx