Transferring the operating system and installed software programs

Hello everyone. This question is actually aimed at PC users, but anyone's advice is more than welcome. I'm wondering how you deal with transferring installed software programs when doing a fresh install on a new computer or reinstalling the OS, in my case Windows (for whatever reason). In fact, it's no problem to reinstall some apps that I use all the time (Cubase, Dorico, OBS, etc.), but since we all have dozens of different plugins and apps for different controllers (Streamdeck, mixers, mouse software and similar peripherals... .) this translates into hours of installing and importing custom settings. I'm interested in how you solve the situation in general and whether you use the option of migrating the operating system together with the installed software programs and subsequently update everything necessary, or something else? Thanks.

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