Backing Up Full Programs

[John Gregory]

I've added a third machine to my home network and would like to duplicate my entire Quicken program - with all it's settings - on my newest machine: a WINDOWS XP Home Edition. The original program is located on a machine using WINDOWS 98 SE. Is it possible to use WINDOWS 98SE backup utility, backup the program from the 98SE machine, target a destination on the XP, then restore the program (still using 98SE?) into a new directory under MY PROGRAMS on the XP machine? If so, then I guess the next step would be to merely copy the user file of Quicken to the XP machine?

 

[Jason Haynes]

You will have to install Quicken on the new machine (provided the version of
Quicken is compatible with XP). Copying the program folder would not copy
the necessary registry entries that the program needs to run. After you've
installed it you can copy the user file to the new machine.

I've added a third machine to my home network and would like to duplicate my
entire Quicken program - with all it's settings - on my newest machine: a
WINDOWS XP Home Edition. The original program is located on a machine using
WINDOWS 98 SE. Is it possible to use WINDOWS 98SE backup utility, backup the
program from the 98SE machine, target a destination on the XP, then restore
the program (still using 98SE?) into a new directory under MY PROGRAMS on
the XP machine? If so, then I guess the next step would be to merely copy
the user file of Quicken to the XP machine?

 

[John Gregory]

Thanks, Jason. For future reference, if both machines used the same
platform, could this be done? (Backing up to a new machine then restoring on
that new machine? Or can you only restore to the machine that performed the
original backed up.)

 

[D.Currie]

Nope. And if you tried to restore to the same computer after formatting the
drive and doing a fresh install of Windows, it still wouldn't work. When you
install a program, it writes entries in the registry and put files in places
other than the program folder. If you just copied the program folder, you
wouldn't have the registry entries or the additional files.