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Win7 new hardware id makes it so I have to reinstall software

I just cloned my 120GB SSD to a 240GB SSD on my Dell Optiplex Win7 64 bit machine.  Suddenly Quckbooks and a few other applications are asking me to re-install/reactivate them.   Windows itself just flew right along.  I would have thought  if Quickbooks thought I'd reinstalled on a new machine, Windows would have too.  Or maybe it just reactivated automatically.  How does all this work?  What does the software look at that it thinks I'm installing it on a new machine?
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Al
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Thanks,
Al
@alanlsilverman - Thank you and I was happy to help.