loading programs from an older hard drive

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I am trying to load programs from an old hard drive still installed on my
computer but I keep getting the same error message: Operating system is not
presently configured to run this application. In Xp The operating system
would tell you what files were msiing from the regestry and you could add
them manually to get the program to run without reinstalling it How do you do
that In Vista?
 
Carl said:
I am trying to load programs from an old hard drive still installed on my
computer but I keep getting the same error message: Operating system is not
presently configured to run this application. In Xp The operating system
would tell you what files were msiing from the regestry and you could add
them manually to get the program to run without reinstalling it How do you do
that In Vista?
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You'll need to install the applications on the new hard drive using
the original installation media. Unless it's a very small, stand-alone
executable a program can't just be copied. If it's a standard
WinXP-compatible application, there'll be dozens of hidden systems files
and an untold number of registry entries that would also have to be
recreated on the new computer.


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