Here is a possible solution. I have tested it and it works. It would take less than three hours if you have the necessary things. If not it might cost you somewhere between £/$15-£/$30 depending how big your 'old' hard drive is. It would also give you considerable freedom to change things in the future.

In a nutshell. CLONE THE OLD MACHINE. DEAD easy. I don't think I have ever done a software project that was more straightforward and had no issues (apart from one minor Adobe one that didn't stop the products opening and working)

As an aside it has completely changed the way that I will back up my system in the future. Once a month I will do what I did this morning...

What you need is -

1 A downloaded free version of Macrium Reflect free
2 An empty hard drive that you are prepared to format. I have a 500gb old laptop drive that I have in a 2.5" SATA External case that can connect to the computer via USB

That's it. A couple of options (*) that may be different in your system

1 Plug in external hard drive (*or attach a blank second drive into the machine. Most machines have the option to add more than one drive)
2 Download and copy the Macrium software to the machine that you want to clone (* this maybe a problem for you. There is some info here that might work https://forum.macrium.com/26618/How-do-you-install-reflect-server-and-workstation-ver-7-without-internet)
3 Run the Macrium software
4 Choose what you want to clone. My new 1tb hard drive is partitioned into two 500gb drives and the D: drive has nothing on it so no point in copying it
5 Leave it to copy. My 500gb drive (about 160gb used as I have reinstalled stuff from scratch) took 1hr 40mins to copy to the USB external drive

Now the exciting bit, testing it...

The cloned drive will not boot from USB (Windows doesn't allow it) so what I needed to do was to take the SATA drive out of its enclosure. I then disconnected the power and data connections from one of my machine's 'normal' hard drive of the computer and instead attached the 2.5" SATA drive that contained the cloned information.

And turned the machine on. It took a bit of time to boot up.

So what have I got?

1 All the files are on the machine
2 Norton anti virus is running and up to date
3 The internet connection just worked with no configuration or anything needed
4 All drives seen fine
5 Photoshop opens happily
6 Reaper opens happily and all plug ins are in place and working
7 Chrome works with all settings
8 Everything I tried works. The one thing it asked me to repair was Adobe Creative Cloud. But it didn't stop either Photoshop or Lightroom working
9 ASIO drivers are installed and working and Reaper played back through soundcard with no configuration
10 Office works. Dropbox and OneDrive work. Mega (where I store some things) all work. You name it, it works.
11 All passwords etc worked

12 Disconnected cloned drive and put it away safely... and my intention is to overwrite it at intervals in the future if I install various new programs

Total time from start to finish (including typing this!) about 3 hours.

You would be free to run your 'new' cloned machine for as long as you want to be sure that it is 100% ok. You could then even format the old drive and use it again - if it's not knackered - but with no worry of losing your software.

As an aside your Adobe software licence allows for installation on TWO machines as long as they are not used at the same time.