Hi again everyone,

First of all, it's not the average "coming back, need mods/what are the updates", so please read on.

I've been away several months, and now I'm making a new machine. Will be complete at 2/3 weeks, for now missing 2 critical componentes... Will have a GTX 460 with 1gb vram, so I can use more high texture mods (up from a 500mb old card). From a c2d to an i5 that will be overclocked to 3,6ghz, or at least 3,4 - so that more scripts could run at once. A 1680x1050 against my old 1280x1024, now wide. And a raid 0 of 2x500gbseagate...
What I want - To know what I need to chance, or drop off if I want to keep my old character/savegame. Or if it will be against the engine to go so many transformations at once... actually any save/streamsave goes to 3 seconds, a critical pause, and already at 13mb, seem to go up around 0,05mb every new save. (I'm crazy? with FCOM, OBSE and PLUGGY it seen to increase quicker than vanilla content... also Main quest, SI and KOTN done).

So... the list, sorry if it was a bit confusing til now:

1 - Any chance needed to do to the ini?
2 - To the steamline ini?
3 - about savefile size... any way to make it smaller?
4 - Could it be better to copy/paste all the installation and then do the updates or to redo it from scratch? (while keeping the same char/savegame)
5 - Any advice that I could have forgotten?

Haven't found anything related to the above questions, so please give your thoughts about it.
Tnx for now
PS: crazy to try the new ones... it will be a fun new year.

Install from scratch. The ini will take care of itself as you install stuff. Don't know about Streamline - I don't use it. Nothing you can do about saved game sizes - that depends on the mods you have loaded.

I went through a similar process recently and I was able to load my saved games in the new setup. I even went from Windows XP to Windows 7 64-bit and was able to load my saved games! That was a pleasant surprise.

If your new machine has more power than your old, you might look at installing more texture replacers. You should be able to install those and still load your old saves.