please help: can't transfer programs

[alan]

I’d be very grateful for some advice.

A few years ago, I was given a computer running Windows 98SE. It
already had some programs on it, such as Word and Photoshop 6, but I
wasn’t given any of the discs for these programs.

I used this computer for years, but finally decided to upgrade to XP,
so I recently got another computer, second-hand, through a newspaper
ad.

I thought it would be easy to get my programs onto this other
computer, but I’m having problems. I tried doing it by copying all the
folders with these programs in them to the second hard drive, then
putting this drive into the other computer (it had no problem finding
this new drive, BTW). I then tried going into each folder and just
clicking on the program’s icon (the ‘W’ icon in Word and the eye icon
in Photoshop). This always worked in the past.

But with Photoshop I got the message “application has failed to start
because AGM.dll was not found”, then with Word I got the message
“application has failed to start because MS09.dll was not found”.

I've a feeling I'll get this sort of problem with all the other
programs I want to transfer to this computer.

As I’m sure you can guess, I’ve no idea what I’m doing. Can anyone
tell me a way of getting these programs onto this computer?

Thanks in advance.

 

[DL]

You cannot copy Programs, you need the installation cd's
(Reason installing a program writes entries in various places including the
win registry, which you cannot replicate by copying)
It can also be the case that a program that runs on Win9* may not run on
WinXP
You can copy / transfer data files


I’d be very grateful for some advice.

A few years ago, I was given a computer running Windows 98SE. It
already had some programs on it, such as Word and Photoshop 6, but I
wasn’t given any of the discs for these programs.

I used this computer for years, but finally decided to upgrade to XP,
so I recently got another computer, second-hand, through a newspaper
ad.

I thought it would be easy to get my programs onto this other
computer, but I’m having problems. I tried doing it by copying all the
folders with these programs in them to the second hard drive, then
putting this drive into the other computer (it had no problem finding
this new drive, BTW). I then tried going into each folder and just
clicking on the program’s icon (the ‘W’ icon in Word and the eye icon
in Photoshop). This always worked in the past.

But with Photoshop I got the message “application has failed to start
because AGM.dll was not found”, then with Word I got the message
“application has failed to start because MS09.dll was not found”.

I've a feeling I'll get this sort of problem with all the other
programs I want to transfer to this computer.

As I’m sure you can guess, I’ve no idea what I’m doing. Can anyone
tell me a way of getting these programs onto this computer?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I’d be very grateful for some advice.

A few years ago, I was given a computer running Windows 98SE. It
already had some programs on it, such as Word and Photoshop 6, but I
wasn’t given any of the discs for these programs.

I used this computer for years, but finally decided to upgrade to
XP, so I recently got another computer, second-hand, through a
newspaper ad.

I thought it would be easy to get my programs onto this other
computer, but I’m having problems. I tried doing it by copying all
the folders with these programs in them to the second hard drive,
then putting this drive into the other computer (it had no problem
finding this new drive, BTW). I then tried going into each folder
and just clicking on the program’s icon (the ‘W’ icon in Word and
the eye icon in Photoshop). This always worked in the past.

But with Photoshop I got the message “application has failed to
start because AGM.dll was not found”, then with Word I got the
message “application has failed to start because MS09.dll was not
found”.

I've a feeling I'll get this sort of problem with all the other
programs I want to transfer to this computer.

As I’m sure you can guess, I’ve no idea what I’m doing. Can anyone
tell me a way of getting these programs onto this computer?

Thanks in advance.

If you did not get the installation media and/or the product licenses - you
probably have just been using pirated copies of the software anyway. I say
this because anyone willing to 'give' such a computer away - would/should
have given up the installation media/product keys/etc for the software they
were presenting you as well.

In any case - no, you cannot just move these programs - particularly in the
manner you are attempting to do. From one computer running a much older OS
to a newer OS computer without the installation media.

Not to mention - it is *way*past the point of upgrade time for all of that.

- Paint .NET (freeware) should be more than equivalent to Photoshop 6.0.
- Microsoft Word - what version? Maybe OpenOffice will suite your needs.

What other programs?