Transfer Programs ??

[lamroNeByhW]

I just built my mother a new computer. She has a couple old programs on the old computer that she still likes and wants to be able to use. I tried to explain that there are better programs out for what she wants to use these for but thats another animal. Anyway, is there a way I can transfer these old programs from the old computer to the new one. I thought about laplink or fastlynx but will they transfer entire programs from computer to computer or just files. Any help or advice would be great.

 

[btvillarin]

Does she still have the installation disks? It'd be better to back up her data, and reinstall it on her new computer. Those programs might need to insert some registry settings and stuff, and just copying file to her new one might not do the trick.

 

[lamroNeByhW]

That is my thinking, but unfortunately she does not have or just cant find the disks. They are some pretty old programs (I think). One is some kind of crayola art program...another is a canon card making software, really a suite of several programs, I think I am pretty much out of luck but wanted to check and make sure there were not anykind of programs I could use before I told her she was out of luck. Thanks for the reply btvillarin. Any other suggestions anyone ??

 

[killface]

I know there is a program that will do this for you, but I just can't think of which one it was. It was a feature on one of the big software packages out there. When I think of it, I'll post it, but there is hope out there.

 

[lamroNeByhW]

At least that gives me a little hope, thanks. The only program I could think of would be part of Clean Sweep, the move wizard, but the program that is going to be moved had to be monitored by clean sweep in order to move it. Any one else have any more suggestions. I know these may be trivial programs, but if they are important to her then they are important to me.

 

[DonaldC]

Here's what I did. Take the hard drive out of the old computer and put it in the new one temporarly. Set it up as a slave on one of your IDE slots. Transfer the data she wants and then put the drive back.