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![]() I recently upgraded a laptop and wanted to move a few obsolete programs to the new one.
I found a tutorial that showed copying and pasting the program files from the old laptop to the new one's programx86 folder. I had success with a couple, including photoshop 5.5, but photoshop7 won't open. Is there some way to copy the necessary files from the old laptop to the new one in order to make it work? |
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![]() You probably did not moved some files that are stored in different folder like in appdata, it would aso help if you wrote what system are you using on both machines.
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![]() Before installing any program, copy it to a Software Library Folder together with it's Password. If you get a new computer you can simply do a fresh install using the original install file & password. I did this a couple of months ago for Photoshop 7 and a few other programs without any problems.
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![]() software / programs need to be installed on a computer etc to work correctly, maybe some programs etc can be copied over but some parts of the program may not work correctly or at all because it has not be installed.
Some programs etc may not be compatible with a different OS and or hardware, when you install a program it checks first and alerts you if not supported on a new computer etc. |
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![]() Agree evenings7, always better to install it from the setup files.
An other idea would be to clone your current harddrive to the new one, like a 1:1 copy. But only copy files and folder can give you a lot of troubles! Good luck ![]() |
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![]() As noted above, most software doesn't have all of it's "parts" in the file folder. The bulk of the program goes into the installation folder, there may also be pieces in various Windows folders, and most importantly, there are all of the registry entries which tells Windows where the software is installed, what it does, etc.
So you can copy and test. Those small standalone programs that have no Windows dependencies, should work just fine. Everything else will need to be installed from the installation media/file. |
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