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| Thread ID: 89056 | 2008-04-19 07:01:00 | Transferring files. | Cicero (40) | Press F1 |
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| 660143 | 2008-04-19 23:05:00 | There are a lot of smaller apps that do not need an install. You can test if they work by copying them to another drive and try and run them. Some rely on registry entries to point to shared dll's or drivers and some come complete with all they need. mIRC, Search & Replace, Older versions of MYOB up to v8 that I know of, FlashFXp, BPFTP, Netterm, CuteFTP, Beyond Compare, Magic File Renamer are some I use without re-installing, they just sit on a spare hdd and run from there. There are some Portable Programs now other than U3 that will run from a CD or Flash Drive. There is even versions of MS Office, Photoshop, Fireworks, Limewire Winamp, Snagit, Nero, Winzip, Yahoo Messenger, AVG, Norton AV, Acrobat Reader and many more that can do that. None of the Portable Apps need an installation. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 660144 | 2008-04-20 02:56:00 | You can copy a program's installation file from one computer to another via a USB drive but not a program once it has been installed. If you have downloaded a program, eg Belarc, you can copy the EXE file (which installs the program) to your USB drive and then copy to another computer. The program can then be installed on the other PC. So to answer your original question, yes, the EXE file can be dragged onto your USB drive and it will transfer to another computer. Thanks you all replies,I get it now,I think. It would seem that some things can't be transfered from one computer to another,apart one would think , were we to transfer all of one computer to another,seeing as how we export registry etc as well. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 660145 | 2008-04-20 19:57:00 | Thanks you all replies,I get it now,I think. It would seem that some things can't be transfered from one computer to another,apart one would think , were we to transfer all of one computer to another,seeing as how we export registry etc as well. If you plan on that one then make sure you have the same hardware in both the source and destination computer. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 660146 | 2008-04-21 05:09:00 | Thanks again all,I have decided that it is better for me to remain ignorant,to many variables for my interest level. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 660147 | 2008-04-21 08:11:00 | Any freeware I download and install on my computer, I save the .exe files into a folder on my spare flash drive so that I can install them on other comps without downloading them again. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 660148 | 2008-04-21 10:48:00 | Any freeware I download and install on my computer, I save the .exe files into a folder on my spare flash drive so that I can install them on other comps without downloading them again. I will be doing that in future. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 660149 | 2009-03-05 18:07:00 | Would'nt the easiest thing to do, is just burn a data cd or dvd on the first computer with all the programs you want to transfer and then just throw the cd or dvd into the target computer? | Jaesinn (13646) | ||
| 660150 | 2009-03-05 18:17:00 | Some small programs can copy straight across. Some I know of: Winzip, mIRC, AVI2DVD, DVD Decrypter, MYOB at least up to version 8, These little apps I have installed on D Drive and any time I reinstall Windows on C I just drop a shortcut onto the desktop from D/programs/* Bigger stuff and newer stuff then they need to be installed as they put info to the registry, files into the various Windows directories, also files into user directories etc. Thus transferring them is not really possible unless you know where every file comes from and must go back to to run the app. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 660151 | 2009-03-06 07:15:00 | I bought a program some years ago that could transfer windows programs. I used it initially to copy Word from my main computer to a Toshiba Libretto mini-notebook that didn't have a CD drive and it worked first time, no problems at all. After that I used it successfully a number of times to transfer various Windows programs, but it fell into disuse after I had CD drives on all my computers (except the Libretto, which I still use). A newer version was released some years later and I think I may have bought that too but never used it so it will be in my big box of forgotten and/or redundant programs somewhere. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 660152 | 2009-03-06 07:21:00 | Do you still remember the name of it? | Blam (54) | ||
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