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transferring programs from on laptop to another
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lemontart
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Hi how do I simply transfer programs from one windows 7 laptop to another windows 7 laptop - I foolishly believed it would happen via windows easy transfer and a belkin easy transfer cable . I would prefer to avoid hassle of finding all the disks or having to download again.
Many thanks in advance
Many thanks in advance
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Only if your program is the most simple, single-file executable will you be able to do this ( or if you have the downloaded package installer for something you got off the web)
Most programs contain a number of files and amendments to registry entries, etc, and without being the author, there's very little chance of you picking these up.
Find the original install discs.0 -
Take a image of your pc and boot the image should do as clean as job as possilble0
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bengalknights wrote: »Take a image of your pc and boot the image should do as clean as job as possilble
...although this would require the machines to have the same hardware drivers, disc sizes, etc.
Your best bet is to accept a half-day of installation discs and messing around, get it *right* then create a snapshot you can roll back to if you ever need to0 -
Hi how do I simply transfer programs from one windows 7 laptop to another windows 7 laptop...
Can be done but not simply.
The easiest way, but still fairly technical, while keeping the new setup would be to save your pc as a virtual PC then user something like vmplayer, parrallels, or virtualBox and run your laptop as a virtualized device.0
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