Program to move programs

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Hi guys,
Is there a freeware program out there to move programs?

I have a friend who has an XP machine that got corrupted so I put Win2000Pro
on the same drive and saved some of his stuff.

Now I would like to move his cad program that we do not have the disc for.
 
Hi guys,
Is there a freeware program out there to move programs?

I have a friend who has an XP machine that got corrupted so I put
Win2000Pro on the same drive and saved some of his stuff.

Now I would like to move his cad program that we do not have the disc
for.
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Application Mover from http://www.funduc.com may be what you are looking
for. It will move within the same disk. Works great for this.

Not freeware, but you get 10 free uses as an evaluation.

Application Mover is a utility that relocates installed programs from one
path to another on your hard disk. Application Mover takes files found in
the path specified in the Current Path field and moves them to the New
Path field. The program then scans the windows registry for references to
files located in Current Path and changes those references to the New
Path. Application Mover also scans all windows shortcuts in the Start
Menu and adjusts path references to the new location. Finally, *.ini and
Install.log files present in the original path are checked for strings
matching the old path location. If found, those strings are changed to
the new location. Confirmation dialogs are available if you enable the
Confirm Changes checkbox (see below). A log file listing technical
information about the changes made can be written by specifying a file in
the Log Changes to File field. If a file is 'busy' and cannot be moved to
the new location, a reboot prompt is offered after Application Mover is
finished. Pending changes are then completed after the reboot. Finally,
Application Mover program can be launched from Windows Explorer if you
elected to add the Explorer functionality during installation or via a
command line switch.
 
Do a search for coa ( "change of adress") an utility by PC Magazine. Should
be downloadable from somewhere.
Dosen't move ( you have to move the folder containing the app to where you
want), but does modify all .ini, shortcuts and registry to replace all old
location to new one.
Good luck
 
"Pivert" said:
Do a search for coa ( "change of adress") an utility by PC Magazine. Should
be downloadable from somewhere.
Dosen't move ( you have to move the folder containing the app to where you
want), but does modify all .ini, shortcuts and registry to replace all old
location to new one.
Good luck
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coa32.zip and it's available at ...

http://xpt.sourceforge.net/old_home/tools/win/

Mark S.
 
Pivert said:
Do a search for coa ( "change of adress") an utility by PC Magazine.
Should be downloadable from somewhere.
Dosen't move ( you have to move the folder containing the app to where
you want), but does modify all .ini, shortcuts and registry to replace
all old location to new one.
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,9413,00.asp

"COA2 runs under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, and
Windows 2000"

Does this mean it'll work under XP?
 
Trai' La Trash said:
Is there a freeware program out there to move programs?

I have a friend who has an XP machine that got corrupted so I put Win2000Pro
on the same drive and saved some of his stuff.

Now I would like to move his cad program that we do not have the disc for.
Click to expand...

What do you mean? That you reformatted the disk, and then installed W2000?
What did you save? Some program directories? Did you also save the original
OS directories?

Let's say that you reformatted. And maybe you only saved some program
directories.

That means you cannot load the registry hives, for extractions, even if
you wanted, to get at whatever registry keys that CAD program might have
needed. In most cases, that will be fine. You'll lose settings, but the
majority of programs know how to write the registry entries they need,
when you launch them.

Your main issue will then be whether the CAD program, when originally
installed, had placed files it needed (eg DLLs) in locations outside its
own directory. Namely, into the System directory. Or perhaps into the
"Common Files" directory.

Go ahead and copy the saved CAD program directory onto the new system.
Then try and run it. See if it complains. If it does (or perhaps even if
it does not), use Dependency Walker. To find out what it wants, that it
does not have. To do this well, use Dependency Walkder's profiling function.

http://www.dependencywalker.com/
 
Tiger said:
Download and install a small crappy app that you don't want to keep
and try it out on it.
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Oh, thanks, but I don't have XP and don't intend to - the original
poster has said as below, so I thought he wanted a mover that worke
under XP?

~~ I have a friend who has an XP machine that got corrupted so I put
~~ Win2000Pro on the same drive and saved some of his stuff.

~~ Now I would like to move his cad program that we do not have the disc
~~ for.
 
Better than COA (Change of Address) or the similar MoveIt, is the now
discontinued AppMover .. an old Iomega program provided freeware. It
works like Partition Magic's Magic Mover.

COA and MoveIt certainly will make registry data changes, .ini file
changes,
etc, but they do NOT actually move the program from its original
location
to the new location. You have to do that manually. And, with that
premise
comes the worry of making certain you made the right choice, spelled
all
names and paths correctly, and having to perform several operations to
gain the finished results.

On the other hand, Magic Mover makes all the operative changes to the
registry as well as moves the program itself from place to place.
Trouble is ...
you cannot get Magic Mover as a standalone program, and it is
commercial
ware anyway. (Having said that, many have indeed learned how to hack
the MagicMover program to work as a standalone)

AppMover, however, is freeware. Although it is becoming more
difficult
to find, it works just like Magic Mover, making all physical moves of
the
program as well as all operative changes to the registry data, .ini
files, etc.
 
Better than COA (Change of Address) or the similar MoveIt, is the now
discontinued AppMover .. an old Iomega program provided freeware. It
works like Partition Magic's Magic Mover.
Click to expand...

This moves me to point out that these things aren't yet omniscient.
Sure, they do a job; but if you have anything in the way of some
complexity in your system, you'll most likely end up having to do a
fair bit of manual tweaking anyway. At least, that was my experience
with the PM thingo. As usual, YMMV.
COA and MoveIt certainly will make registry data changes, .ini file changes,
etc, but they do NOT actually move the program from its original location
to the new location. You have to do that manually. And, with that premise
comes the worry of making certain you made the right choice, spelled all
names and paths correctly, and having to perform several operations to
gain the finished results.

On the other hand, Magic Mover makes all the operative changes to the
registry as well as moves the program itself from place to place.
Trouble is ...
you cannot get Magic Mover as a standalone program, and it is commercial
ware anyway. (Having said that, many have indeed learned how to hack
the MagicMover program to work as a standalone)

AppMover, however, is freeware. Although it is becoming more difficult
to find, it works just like Magic Mover, making all physical moves of the
program as well as all operative changes to the registry data, .ini
files, etc.
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Cheers, Phred.
 
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| This moves me to point out that these things aren't yet omniscient.
| Sure, they do a job; but if you have anything in the way of some
| complexity in your system, you'll most likely end up having to do a
| fair bit of manual tweaking anyway. At least, that was my
experience
| with the PM thingo. ==========

I am inclined to agree that such may happen, but it hasn't yet for me.
AppMover works very well on my XP installation, especially when
the default installation process is usually C:\Program Files. Wanting
to maintain my C: drive a small as possible (for imaging purposes),
I have used AppMover extensively for moving many things to the
D: drive ...no problems so far.
 
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