Re: Restore applications
- From: "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers" <rick@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:09:07 -0500
Hi,
You have to reinstall them to create the needed registry entries. The
programs will not run properly without them, and you can't do it manually.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Josh" <Josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My system hard drive crashed. Luckily, I make regular backups to another
> hard drive using Windows backup utility. I bought a new hard drive and
> made
> a clean install of XP. I restored all my data, including the application
> folders. However, I want to restore all my applications to the new OS
> without reinstalling them, as this would take another day, at least.
>
> Is there a way to restore my previously installed application settings so
> I
> don't have to reinstall all my applications; for instance, using the
> backup
> registry file? I cannot restore the system state since the new hard drive
> is
> larger, and a system state restore requires exact same hardware.
>
>
.
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