vista on old laptop to w7 on new laptop

If someone buys a new laptop with w7, can she move her installed
applications from her old vista laptop to her new w7 laptop? TIA, Paul

The answer depends upon the Applications.
Any Application bought seperately that she has the CD for can be
installed on the new Laptop...usually after uninstalling from old Laptop.
Any Application that originally came with the old Laptop and was part of the
"install" CD or Recovery Partition installation procedure cannot be
installed
to the new Laptop. If the program came on a seperate installation CD then it
usually
can be installed unless it is specific to the manufacturer of the old
Laptop. A Dell
program most likely will not work on a HP computer.
You cannot just move the installation directory from one Laptop to the next.
There
are Registry entries that are needed to make the program function.

peter

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"Paul H" <> wrote in message
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> If someone buys a new laptop with w7, can she move her installed
> applications from her old vista laptop to her new w7 laptop? TIA, Paul
>

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:47:42 -0500, "Paul H"
<> wrote:

> If someone buys a new laptop with w7, can she move her installed
> applications from her old vista laptop to her new w7 laptop? TIA, Paul



In general, no, although the reason has nothing to do with Windows
Vista or Windows 7 in particular. Applications have many references
within the registry and elsewhere within \windows, and those
references are needed and can't be transferred. You will have to
reinstall the programs from the original media.

There's an occasional exception to the above, but generally they are
few small and simple programs.



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Hi, Paul.

Peter and Ken have explained the need for each application's Install routine
to write the proper Registry entries into the new computer. But she can
make the job somewhat easier by using the built-in application Windows Easy
Transfer. (I don't recall where on the Start Menu its original location
was; I have it pinned to my Start Menu.) Run WET on the old computer (yes,
it will run in Vista), saving its output onto a flash drive or other mobile
media. Then plug that media into the new computer and run WET again. This
won't bring forward everything from the old system - and it will not
re-install the applications, but it will ease the transition significantly
for many users.

RC
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"Paul H" <> wrote in message
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> If someone buys a new laptop with w7, can she move her installed
> applications from her old vista laptop to her new w7 laptop? TIA, Paul

Hi RC,

About a year ago I did buy and use Laplink's PC Mover for 40 bucks and moved
installed applications, data, programs, and apparently registry entries from
an old HP XP Pro to a new Acer Palmtop with XP home. I had applications for
which I had downloaded as freeware from places like CNET and then lost the
install files. Well, "slam, bam, thank you Mam", it worked perfectly, My
precious applications, with the custom choices I made, ran perfectly on the
Acer, so I was able to wipe the old HP laptop and sell it.

If my friend wanted to just upgrade to W7 on her old laptop, her
applications would stay intact. I was hoping a similar ability existed if
the W7 was on a different (new) laptop.

Paul

"R. C. White" <> wrote in message
news:F3A55AD4-3439-4310-9BFF-...
> Hi, Paul.
>
> Peter and Ken have explained the need for each application's Install
> routine to write the proper Registry entries into the new computer. But
> she can make the job somewhat easier by using the built-in application
> Windows Easy Transfer. (I don't recall where on the Start Menu its
> original location was; I have it pinned to my Start Menu.) Run WET on the
> old computer (yes, it will run in Vista), saving its output onto a flash
> drive or other mobile media. Then plug that media into the new computer
> and run WET again. This won't bring forward everything from the old
> system - and it will not re-install the applications, but it will ease the
> transition significantly for many users.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
>
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64)
>
> "Paul H" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> If someone buys a new laptop with w7, can she move her installed
>> applications from her old vista laptop to her new w7 laptop? TIA, Paul
>

Hi RC,

Typo, fixed below - Netbook, not palmtop!

About a year ago I did buy and use Laplink's PC Mover for 40 bucks and moved
installed applications, data, programs, and apparently registry entries from
an old HP XP Pro to a new Acer netbook with XP home. I had applications for
which I had downloaded as freeware from places like CNET and then lost the
install files. Well, "slam, bam, thank you Mam", it worked perfectly, My
precious applications, with the custom choices I made, ran perfectly on the
Acer, so I was able to wipe the old HP laptop and sell it.

If my friend wanted to just upgrade to W7 on her old laptop, her
applications would stay intact. I was hoping a similar ability existed if
the W7 was on a different (new) laptop.

Paul

"R. C. White" <> wrote in message
news:F3A55AD4-3439-4310-9BFF-...
> Hi, Paul.
>
> Peter and Ken have explained the need for each application's Install
> routine to write the proper Registry entries into the new computer. But
> she can make the job somewhat easier by using the built-in application
> Windows Easy Transfer. (I don't recall where on the Start Menu its
> original location was; I have it pinned to my Start Menu.) Run WET on the
> old computer (yes, it will run in Vista), saving its output onto a flash
> drive or other mobile media. Then plug that media into the new computer
> and run WET again. This won't bring forward everything from the old
> system - and it will not re-install the applications, but it will ease the
> transition significantly for many users.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
>
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64)
>
> "Paul H" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> If someone buys a new laptop with w7, can she move her installed
>> applications from her old vista laptop to her new w7 laptop? TIA, Paul
>