Upgrading hardware

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I feel a little bit dense not seeing a use for this a long time ago, but have since started using it on my bench machine at work to make life easier.

Go into your system properties (right click My Computer > Properties) then click on the tab "Hardware Profiles". Before doing a major hardware upgrade, copy the current profile to a new profile and name it whatever you like. Shut down the system and do your upgrade. On boot, you will be prompted to select from either your original profile, or the copied profile. Select one of them and allow windows to detect and setup the new hardware. Should something get really screwed up, no big deal. Boot to safe mode and make another copy of your original hardware profile and try again.

I have been using this at work by making hardware profiles of the different motherboards that we use. When I have to put a motherboard on my bench drive for testing, I can select the board from my profile list and not have to reconfigure the hardware on bootup.

Saw this a long time ago and finally noticed a use for it.