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Can a PROGRAM be moved from one hard disk to another??

 
 
Bob J
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      17th Oct 2006
I lookwed to see if there were any other inquiries but didn't find any
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It seems like there was a way to transfer a program of of c: for
example and the registry and all other pointers would follow.

Does anyone know of this program or a way to do it ??

TIA
 
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      17th Oct 2006
There are some 3rd party utilities out there that claim to do that,
reported success varies. In Windows, uninstall and reinstall to the
drive desired is the recommended method.

Bob J wrote:

> I lookwed to see if there were any other inquiries but didn't find any
> ...
>
> It seems like there was a way to transfer a program of of c: for
> example and the registry and all other pointers would follow.
>
> Does anyone know of this program or a way to do it ??
>
> TIA


 
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      17th Oct 2006

Impossible to give a general answer, since it depends where the program
stores its binaries, settings and data.

For example, Firefox can be copied from one Program Files folder to another
and will work straightaway. If you also want the config and user-files
(cookies, history, etc) transferred, then you need to get these from under
the user's Application Data folder. Firefox makes no significant use of the
registry, other than making itself the default HTML handler if requested.

Many programs make use of the registry to a greater or lesser extent, and
it's then down-to finding-out exactly what is needed. Some also dump stuff
into the "Common Files" folder. These kinds of programs are much more
difficult to transfer.


 
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      18th Oct 2006
Bob I wrote:
> There are some 3rd party utilities out there that claim to do that,
> reported success varies. In Windows, uninstall and reinstall to the
> drive desired is the recommended method.
>
> Bob J wrote:
>
>> I lookwed to see if there were any other inquiries but didn't find any
>> ...
>>
>> It seems like there was a way to transfer a program of of c: for
>> example and the registry and all other pointers would follow.
>>
>> Does anyone know of this program or a way to do it ??
>>
>> TIA

>

It is possible, but you would have to change all the pathnames used by
that program in the Registry, in the shortcuts on the desktop or in the
Start Menu, and in the install log, if one exists. I did that with a
game that installed to a location where I did not want it. I had the
advantage of having a record of all the files added and all the Registry
entries created during installation, however.
 
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