Copying applications from one Windows installation to another rarely works because the new Windows installation won't have the necessary registry entries and probably will be missing other things as well. For example, the hidden by default Program Data and user profile directories contain quite a lot of stuff essential for some applications to run correctly and it's very easy to miss things.
Data (projects, pictures, audio etc.) you can just copy and will be fine. Applications (including plugins) need to be freshly installed using their installers otherwise you'll get the kind of problems you're having.
This is a function of how Windows works and is not a Sonar problem.
You can rebuild a Windows installation from backup images to an extent, but that's quite different to just copying stuff on to a new PC.
And I nearly forgot - some things use hardware data like network card MAC address, or motherboard serial number, as part of their licensing system. Just dragging them around to different PCs is exactly what that kind of licensing is intended to prevent.