Windows.old Folder

[Guest]

I have a computer which was built by a company that sells parts. I paid them
to build it from scratch. They only guaranteed the hardware, but they
installed Vista Ultimate to make it complete. It slowly had more problems
each day. I didn't know about this site. Finally, I decided to start over
with the beginning -- install Vista and all my programs! When I "finished,"
I observed that I had a folder labeled windows.old. In the meantime, I
realized that I had forgotten to installed another program that had extra
things on it. I decided to find out if windows.old would help. Does anyone
know how you can move a sub-folder from windows.old (Vista) to the folder
"Program Files" and make it work? I am still (again) running Vista.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi richdavid,

You can't. Programs need to be installed from the original installation
media in order to create necessary registry entries, environmental
variables, and have program files placed in the system folders. Without
these, the program will not be able to run. The Windows.old folder houses
the old installation where you can access data files from the previous
installation, but that's about all it is good for (actually, there is a
method for restoring the old installation from it, but that is not its
purpose).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I suspected that.

David

Hi richdavid,

You can't. Programs need to be installed from the original installation
media in order to create necessary registry entries, environmental
variables, and have program files placed in the system folders. Without
these, the program will not be able to run. The Windows.old folder houses
the old installation where you can access data files from the previous
installation, but that's about all it is good for (actually, there is a
method for restoring the old installation from it, but that is not its
purpose).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com