On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:21:44 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet
wrote:

Eric Stevens writes:

On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:22:38 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet
wrote:

"Alan Justice" writes:

I'm getting a Win7 Home Premium 64 bit machine to replace a Win XP. Do I
have to reinstall all the software (PS 6.0, Office Pro, Canon DPP, etc.) and
then go through the process of changing all the settings to how I like it,
or is there a simple way of just copying over (via a backup drive)? I think
some programs may be self contained in a single folder, but some may alter
Win system files, right?

You have to reinstall everything; there's no way to transfer an
installation of a Windows application from one machine to another.

I'm not sure that you are correct. See
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...other-computer

The list of what it transfers is files and settings, and user accounts,
Internet favorites, and e?mail. Notably lacking is "applications".

Reinstalling the basic application is the easy part.

Copying across files, settings, user accounts, internet favourites etc
is where you can end up with something that looks totally unlike your
previous computer.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens