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My motherboard recently went bad, so i bought a new computer. I removed my
old hard drive and installed in the new computer, however i can not access
any of my office programs that were installed on it. in fact most of my
programs i can not access. I need help.
 
My motherboard recently went bad, so i bought a new computer. I removed my
old hard drive and installed in the new computer, however i can not access
any of my office programs that were installed on it. in fact most of my
programs i can not access. I need help.
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Did you install it as the boot drive or as a second drive?
 
hizzy said:
My motherboard recently went bad, so i bought a new computer. I removed my
old hard drive and installed in the new computer, however i can not access
any of my office programs that were installed on it. in fact most of my
programs i can not access. I need help.
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Have you tried the windows.hardware group within that clunky old web
interface into which you have posted?
Rgds
Antioch
 
My motherboard recently went bad, so i bought a new computer. I removed my
old hard drive and installed in the new computer, however i can not access
any of my office programs that were installed on it. in fact most of my
programs i can not access. I need help.
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Do you mean you installed it as a slave drive (second drive), booted from
the drive that came with the new computer with XP installed on it and are
trying to run program installed on that slave drive, and they won't run? If
so installed programs write entries to the registry, but the registry for
the windows OS that you booted from doesn't have those entries. It knows
nothing about those programs. You'll need to reinstall from the original
media.

If your issue is something different than I have outlined, then let us know.
 
My motherboard recently went bad, so i bought a new computer. I removed
Do you mean you installed it as a slave drive (second drive), booted from
the drive that came with the new computer with XP installed on it and are
trying to run program installed on that slave drive, and they won't run?
If so installed programs write entries to the registry, but the registry
for the windows OS that you booted from doesn't have those entries. It
knows nothing about those programs. You'll need to reinstall from the
original media.
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Finally the correct answer. I'm amazed at the answers given here by people
that obviously didn't read the original question, or have no clue what the
answer is. One of the worst answers came from an MVP and so-called
Microsoft Certified Professional. Boggles the mind.
 
Steve said:
Finally the correct answer. I'm amazed at the answers given here by
people that obviously didn't read the original question, or have no
clue what the
answer is. One of the worst answers came from an MVP and so-called
Microsoft Certified Professional. Boggles the mind.
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Wow, a post from a perfect person who never misreads anything or ever
makes a mistake. I'd better print your post out and frame it.

*plonk*

Malke
 
Finally the correct answer. I'm amazed at the answers given here by
people that obviously didn't read the original question, or have no clue
what the answer is. One of the worst answers came from an MVP and
so-called Microsoft Certified Professional. Boggles the mind.
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Steve, the OPs post was confusing. I'm not sure I really understand what
they did. I framed my response several different ways before I settled on
this one.
 
hizzy said:
My motherboard recently went bad, so i bought a new computer. I removed my
old hard drive and installed in the new computer, however i can not access
any of my office programs that were installed on it. in fact most of my
programs i can not access. I need help.
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You must do a fresh reinstall of Windows after changing motherboards.
Sometimes, there's ways around this involving some convoluted hack, but
most of the time (really any time unless time has no value to you),
reinstallation is the way to go.
 
Paul said:
You must do a fresh reinstall of Windows after changing motherboards.
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Not usually. Very rarely, in fact.

Sometimes, ...
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As in roughly 95% of the time....

there's ways around this ....
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... by performing a simple repair installation.

... involving some convoluted hack,
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Utterly false.
but
most of the time (really any time unless time has no value to you),
reinstallation is the way to go.
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You really aren't at all familiar with WinXP, in particular, or
computers, in general, are you?


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