Windows.old Folder

I have a computer which was built by a company that sells parts. I paid them
to build it from scratch. They only guaranteed the hardware, but they
installed Vista Ultimate to make it complete. It slowly had more problems
each day. I didn't know about this site. Finally, I decided to start over
with the beginning -- install Vista and all my programs! When I "finished,"
I observed that I had a folder labeled windows.old. In the meantime, I
realized that I had forgotten to installed another program that had extra
things on it. I decided to find out if windows.old would help. Does anyone
know how you can move a sub-folder from windows.old (Vista) to the folder
"Program Files" and make it work? I am still (again) running Vista.

Hi richdavid,

You can't. Programs need to be installed from the original installation
media in order to create necessary registry entries, environmental
variables, and have program files placed in the system folders. Without
these, the program will not be able to run. The Windows.old folder houses
the old installation where you can access data files from the previous
installation, but that's about all it is good for (actually, there is a
method for restoring the old installation from it, but that is not its
purpose).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"richdavid" <> wrote in message
news:0DB8E124-56D2-41A7-9752-...
>I have a computer which was built by a company that sells parts. I paid
>them
> to build it from scratch. They only guaranteed the hardware, but they
> installed Vista Ultimate to make it complete. It slowly had more problems
> each day. I didn't know about this site. Finally, I decided to start
> over
> with the beginning -- install Vista and all my programs! When I
> "finished,"
> I observed that I had a folder labeled windows.old. In the meantime, I
> realized that I had forgotten to installed another program that had extra
> things on it. I decided to find out if windows.old would help. Does
> anyone
> know how you can move a sub-folder from windows.old (Vista) to the folder
> "Program Files" and make it work? I am still (again) running Vista.
>
>

Thanks. I suspected that.

David

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi richdavid,
>
> You can't. Programs need to be installed from the original installation
> media in order to create necessary registry entries, environmental
> variables, and have program files placed in the system folders. Without
> these, the program will not be able to run. The Windows.old folder houses
> the old installation where you can access data files from the previous
> installation, but that's about all it is good for (actually, there is a
> method for restoring the old installation from it, but that is not its
> purpose).
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "richdavid" <> wrote in message
> news:0DB8E124-56D2-41A7-9752-...
> >I have a computer which was built by a company that sells parts. I paid
> >them
> > to build it from scratch. They only guaranteed the hardware, but they
> > installed Vista Ultimate to make it complete. It slowly had more problems
> > each day. I didn't know about this site. Finally, I decided to start
> > over
> > with the beginning -- install Vista and all my programs! When I
> > "finished,"
> > I observed that I had a folder labeled windows.old. In the meantime, I
> > realized that I had forgotten to installed another program that had extra
> > things on it. I decided to find out if windows.old would help. Does
> > anyone
> > know how you can move a sub-folder from windows.old (Vista) to the folder
> > "Program Files" and make it work? I am still (again) running Vista.
> >
> >
>
>