Windows 7: Make Windows 7 bootable after motherboard swap

Oh my god....I love you. I just used this program because I had a desktop that I had been using for 2+ years and I didn't want to lose all my niche settings and programs and what not, but I was told that under NO circumstances would I be able to pull my drive out of my old computer and install it (without losing anything) into my new computer. This program and guide saved my butt in SO many ways. I thank you *SO* much for this guide!!!!

Glad you have a working computer again.
Did you have to reenter the win7 product key to activate win7?
Did you have to install extra drivers within "P2P adjust OS", or did the program all automatically (replacing drivers with generic ones)?

Your new computer most likely has another network card and graphics card. Were these old drivers not listed anymore after running P2P adjust OS and booting? So did it cleanup "device management" stuff?

I did NOT have to reenter my key, that really shocked me. I didn't have to enter any other drivers either. The program put them all in automatically. Granted on boot (and first reboot), I did have a lot of drivers Windows 7 installed for me.

The new motherboard was ENTIRELY different, I went from a Intel Core 2 Quad to an Intel i7 960. Everything was basically changed. And yes it cleaned up device management from what I noticed. I only had a few drivers that were not installed automatically (which is not shocking since the motherboard had a few non-standard addons to it, bluetooth/wifi both built into the motherboard, a Xonar add on card to name a few). I swear overall this was the least painless computer procedure I have EVER encountered.

So win7 needn't to be reactivated? nice.
All useless drivers are gone in device management... nice. Default ones were installed instead.
Windows update did finish the process.

You had to install "non standard" driverstuff... as you said... quite normal. Just the same as replacing a network card for example.

To recap... just a few clicks and all was working?

Yeah everything seemed to be working well when I stopped the project until I get my new case delivered. I would say from burning the iso to dvd, booting, running the program, booting into W7, rebooting and letting it install drivers, then rebooting again....total time was under 30min. That's even with W7 slowly adding drivers in one by one.

1. Uninstall Device and Device Driver for devices no longer attached to system.
2. Install all of your device drivers, then Windows Updates.
3. Refresh your Windows Experience Index (WEI) score.
4. When done, all you will need to do is to activate Windows 7.

Are you very sure step 4 wasn't needed??
Step 1 wasn't needed as well?? If so... I think the p2p adjust OS procedure replaced the graphics driver with "standard vga driver". Afterwards you or windows plug and play did install the correct gpu-driver. Correct?

I need that info to update my tutorial

No, i actually did step #1 and stripped the drivers, the p2p did adjust the driver to a generic which filled itself in once Windows booted. All in all, other than two or three non-standard devices, W7 installed *ALL* the drivers itself without any problems. #4 I did not have to do, but that may just be a fluke.

By the way...on chance I tested it on Vista (yes, yes, laugh all you want) and it did the same results in almost twice the amount of time. I had a spare IBM/Lenovo laptop and swapped the Vista drive to a Dell, ran the program, voila....works fine (these were just laptops I repaired/restored to sell, so no harm, no foul).