Moving Folders

[titus12]

The other day I moved a folder from one hard drive to another drive on the
same computer. If I were to click on the 'start' program to open it, the
program can not be found or it can not be repaired in the add/remove program
to reset it to open. What is the best way to move a folder so that it will
work?

Thank you;
David

 

[Guest]

Are you trying to move your Program Folder from one hard disk drive to
another? Don't do this. This way you will not be able to run the programs
through shortcuts or even directly executing the files from their current
location. This is because at the time of installation hundreds of registry
settings and other files are being placed in the accurate location. Later, if
you move them then the program try find them on the same location where they
were before. Even, when you click on a Shortcut they have the same old
location for that program.

If you want to free up disk space then move your data files carefully from
that disc instead of program files. If you have already a lot of space then
don't do this and if not then try running Disk Cleanup.

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

The other day I moved a folder from one hard drive to another drive
on the same computer. If I were to click on the 'start' program to
open it, the program can not be found or it can not be repaired in
the add/remove program to reset it to open. What is the best way to
move a folder so that it will work?

Moving a folder is easy and you have presumably done it correctly. However
you can *not* move programs (or folders that contain programs).

In general you can not move programs from one drive to another. The problem
is that almost all programs are not simply a single file or even a bunch of
files. Besides the files that constitute them, they also have, and need,
many entries referring to them and where they are located--in the registry
and elsewhere.

So if you try to move a program, those pointers will all be wrong and the
program won't work. There is software that purports to find and change those
pointers (for example, the freeware COA2.exe) but in my experience these
don't always work perfectly. It's much better and safer to uninstall from
its existing location, and reinstall in the new one.