Home windows 11 will quickly be a lot simpler to arrange precisely the way you prefer it on a brand new PC because of a freshly launched characteristic which has now entered testing.

PC World experiences that Microsoft revealed the brand new Restore Apps characteristic at its Construct convention for builders.

The characteristic – if turned on, as apparently it’s an non-compulsory potential – will shift not simply your private information onto a brand new PC (as can already be accomplished by way of OneDrive, in fact), but in addition your apps (with a catch – we’ll come again to that). Additionally, it’ll port over the customization you might have utilized to the interface too – so, for instance, your desktop icons and format, or apps you might have pinned to the taskbar.

In essence, this implies you’ll be able to fireplace up a brand new set up of Home windows 11 and shortly have it precisely like your outdated system, with a minimal of trouble and energy.

As you may think, although, to get Restore Apps rolling and the complete good thing about this straightforward migration to a brand new machine, you’ll must be signed right into a Microsoft Account (versus utilizing Home windows 11 with an area account).

Evaluation: A few caveats

It is a nice transfer from Microsoft when it comes to making it very easy to get a brand new PC going. The catch is that with the apps being reinstalled, Home windows 11 solely preserves functions you’ve put in from the Microsoft Retailer, so you’ll have to manually arrange different software program.

And sure, you do have to make use of your Microsoft Account for the Home windows 11 set up, however that’s no shock. We don’t have an issue with Microsoft leveraging its account the place mandatory and when it’s of real profit to customers, in any case. (What we don’t wish to see is doubtful ‘recommendations’ and ‘assist’ within the Begin menu that are simply thinly veiled adverts for an account).

We’re advised that Restore Apps needs to be out there to testers imminently, maybe by the point you learn this, however it’s not clear by which channel Microsoft will deploy the characteristic first (Canary or Dev, presumably).