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I have a program installed on windows 7 in my laptop. I wish to install the same program on windows 7 in my desktop. unfortunately, I don't have the source file with me anymore. How can I copy the entire program from one machine to another machine and make it run?
It depends on the program if that's possible or not.
You would have to know, which parts the installer copied to your computer and to which directories. Even then it is possible that the installer checked for prerequisites, found them on the laptop, but are missing on the desktop computer.
You can try to copy the files from the %ProgramFiles% directory, but it is poor luck if that works and you can't be sure that it works correctly. So your best option is to organise the installer package again.
see How to Copy a Program From One Computer to Another Without a Startup Disk.I hope it will work.
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I have a application called MARN.EXE which stores in a shared drive and works fine on our Windows XP system.
However since we use Windows7, we cannot run this EXE file. error is
Can't run 16-bit Windows program
Cannot find file {filepath\MARN.EXE} (or one of it's components). Check to ensure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available.
I'm sure I have the Full Control to that shared drive folder.
and if I copy this folder to my local laptop, it runs fine. So seems not Windows7 problem.
Does anyone know what's the issue? Thank you.
(In properties
Target: "X:\Cusdfhr Cweihe\CS 1 Svc100\Psqw\MARN.EXE" PDAS.MDB
Start in: "X:\Cusdfhr Cweihe\CS 1 Svc100\Psqw"
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The problem is the path. Old 16-bit programs actually run on Win7 BUT there are some restrictions to the folder names. Removing spaces, dashes, etc. should do the trick. Just replace whitespaces with _ and don't use long folder names.
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I inherited a headache. I have a small legacy (GUI) app that was developed 10 years ago and the VB6 source code is long gone. It works currently on a couple of old XP PCs and I was asked to see if I could get it working on Windows 7 64bit. Well… that was a no go, so I tried a 32bit version to verify that 64 wasn’t the issue and it didn’t work. So I then created an XP virtual machine and it didn’t work either. The issue is the same on all three environments. You double click the .exe and nothing is displayed but when you look under task manager, it’s there and pegging the CPU.
I downloaded Dependency Walker and it seems that all the required dlls and OCX files are there. Can anyone suggest anything else? I’m really at a loss here. Anything would be appreciated!
The standard approach is to download and run ProcessMonitor, set it to filter just your executable, run your executable and ProcessMonitor will capture what DLLs/Files/ Registry settings are being used by your application.
Have you confirmed you have the VB6 runtime files installed?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290887
I'm not sure if they are included in Win7 anymore and they were only in XP in one of the later service packs.
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i am running xampp on my windows 7 machine. i've downloaded the sourcecode for concrete5 5.4.2.2 (that is a PHP-based CMS) but some directories are not writeable, see screenie:
since there is no such thing as chmod on windows i am now wondering how to make the folders writeable by the webserver?!
There are two steps that should help you. First, check what user the web server is running as. If you can't see it easily, just Task Manager - it should show you. Then, once you know that user, give him read/write permissions through windows explorer to that folder. Alternatively, you could give "eveyone" access this way, but that has some serious security implications.
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All,
I have one firefox installation at work that has specific add-ons, each add-on having it's own preferences and history/data.
Is there a tool/steps to move the entire data to my personal PC, so that I do not have to set-up everything all over again?
My workstation is Windows XP SP3
and
my personal PC is Windows 7, professional, 64bit.
Thanks
Open your Explorer and type in: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
If you didn't create another profile there should be one folder with ".default" at the end of it's name. Just copy this folder to the same directory on your desktop pc.
Have fun :)
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i wanted to run a .bat file in windows task scheduler, so i opened it, added a new task, browsed to the bat file, and... nothing happened. so i changed the timing to see if it'll run, and it didn't. next i right-clicked on the task and chose "run"- it didn't run. the file itself is only one line, basically backups a folder to a another location. it runs fine when not in the scheduler.
what can be done?
thank you
You should not give batch file directly as a task. Instead you should use
"C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe" /C <completepathtobatchfile> <argstobatchfileifany>
the complete path to cmd.exe may vary in your case depending on which drive you installed OS and which version you are using.