Installing failed computer files into Vista

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"Engineer11" wrote:

> My Sony Vaio laptop motherboard failed and I bought a new HP desktop. All of
> my programs and In fact a complete image of my entire C and D drives from my
> laptop are on a separate hard drive. How do I load all these programs into
> Vista? I am particularly concerned about my entire hotmail address list and
> saved message files.

Engineer11 wrote:

> My Sony Vaio laptop motherboard failed and I bought a new HP desktop. All of
> my programs and In fact a complete image of my entire C and D drives from my
> laptop are on a separate hard drive. How do I load all these programs into
> Vista?

You'll need to install the applications on the new computer using the
original installation media. Unless it's a very small, stand-alone
executable, a program can't just be copied. If it's a standard
Vista-compatible application, there'll be dozens of hidden systems files
and an untold number of registry entries that would also have to be
recreated on the new computer.

> I am particularly concerned about my entire hotmail address list and
> saved message files.

Data can most easily be transfered by slaving the hard drives into the
new computer and then simply using Windows Explorer to copy the desired
files to the new computer's hard drive.


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