Is it possible to Recreate/Restore a programme installed on XP?

[km]

I had an old version of Lotus 1-2-3 v4 (a Windows version) installed
on my XP system. Recently I changed the Hard Drive but I cannot find
my floppy disks for the Lotus programme.

I only use it for personal finance spreadsheets and as I am familiar
with it would prefer to continue with it rather than use the WK files
in something like Xcel.

The programme was only about 4 floppies in size but I cannot find a
version anywhere even after checking abandonware sites, where there
are DOS versions of the release.

If I reconnect my old Hard Drive is there a way to reconstruct the
software (backup?) so that I can install it on my new setup?

I do not think that the programme was contained in its own directory -
the release was in the early 1990's - but I think that some of the
files will be in the Registery etc.

Any help appreciated.

km

 

[philo]

I had an old version of Lotus 1-2-3 v4 (a Windows version) installed
on my XP system. Recently I changed the Hard Drive but I cannot find
my floppy disks for the Lotus programme.

I only use it for personal finance spreadsheets and as I am familiar
with it would prefer to continue with it rather than use the WK files
in something like Xcel.

The programme was only about 4 floppies in size but I cannot find a
version anywhere even after checking abandonware sites, where there
are DOS versions of the release.

If I reconnect my old Hard Drive is there a way to reconstruct the
software (backup?) so that I can install it on my new setup?

You can try to just copy the folder over
and run it. I'm guessing that if it was used with windows3x it would not
have any
extensive registry entries.


Also note: even if you had all the original installtion floppies...
it's possible it would not run on XP anyway

 

[km]

You can try to just copy the folder over
and run it. I'm guessing that if it was used with windows3x it would not
have any
extensive registry entries.


Also note: even if you had all the original installtion floppies...
it's possible it would not run on XP anyway

In the absence of any known procedure to do this I may well just copy
across the folder and see what happens. V4 of lotus 1-2-3 did run on
XP but some of the functions did not e.g. the ability to change text
colour or cell colour stopped.

km

 

[philo]

In the absence of any known procedure to do this I may well just copy
across the folder and see what happens. V4 of lotus 1-2-3 did run on
XP but some of the functions did not e.g. the ability to change text
colour or cell colour stopped.

Ok give it a try...
if it works...great!
If not , Open Office might have some freeware alternative