when xp is installed for the first time (on the first machine), it pulles specific files off the CD. The CD contains alot of drivers and configuration files (4.7Go DVD). When copying across different machines, it also copies specific drivers from the old to new.
The regestery entries (keys) are stored in a single place, however, the keys for software entries point to specific paths pointing to the old hard disk.
It sounded like ya wanted to copy applications across without re-installing them. In the early days of computers, you could copy over entire directories because the program's .INI files would be in the root of the application.
Now, when applicaitons are installed, part of the housekeeping tasks is to "publish" installation into a series of regestry keys, and each key containing a Unique Identifier, basically, the application is "set" to a paticular machine.
A few updates installed means there's a few similarities between machines. The others were specific downloads for the old machine. It downloaded files for the old machine based on unique identifiers it found on the files from the old machine.
To copy out data files, I would jump into the command prompt :
C:\> dir *.??? /a /s >files.txt C:\> dir *.??? /a /w /s >files.txt
The ???'s are the 3 letter extension. Word docs, *.doc, excel, *.xls, Adobe PDF's, *.PDF, and such.
These will scan the entire hard disk with searches in hidden directories and files, and raw-write the results into files.txt on the root of C drive (full path: C:\files.txt)
when data files are found, ya can copy files from the orginal paths into a reposority directory.
C:\> md data_files C:\> cd (path to data files) C:\(path)\> copy *.??? C:\data\files x file(s) copied.
C:\(path)\> cd\data_files C:\data_files> dir *.* /a
It might help ...
Basically, applications cant be copied acrossed. reinstall is needed.
The regestery entries (keys) are stored in a single place, however, the keys for software entries point to specific paths pointing to the old hard disk.
It sounded like ya wanted to copy applications across without re-installing them. In the early days of computers, you could copy over entire directories because the program's .INI files would be in the root of the application.
Now, when applicaitons are installed, part of the housekeeping tasks is to "publish" installation into a series of regestry keys, and each key containing a Unique Identifier, basically, the application is "set" to a paticular machine.
A few updates installed means there's a few similarities between machines. The others were specific downloads for the old machine. It downloaded files for the old machine based on unique identifiers it found on the files from the old machine.
To copy out data files, I would jump into the command prompt :
C:\> dir *.??? /a /s >files.txt
C:\> dir *.??? /a /w /s >files.txt
The ???'s are the 3 letter extension. Word docs, *.doc, excel, *.xls, Adobe PDF's, *.PDF, and such.
These will scan the entire hard disk with searches in hidden directories and files, and raw-write the results into files.txt on the root of C drive (full path: C:\files.txt)
when data files are found, ya can copy files from the orginal paths into a reposority directory.
C:\> md data_files
C:\> cd (path to data files)
C:\(path)\> copy *.??? C:\data\files
x file(s) copied.
C:\(path)\> cd\data_files
C:\data_files> dir *.* /a
It might help ...
Basically, applications cant be copied acrossed. reinstall is needed.
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