Re: Re-Installing backups
From: billh (NoMail_at_Post2Newsgroup.Pls)
Date: 03/18/04
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:05:58 -0500
"Michelle" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello
> I need someone's assistance, and PLEASE keep in mind that this is the user
sites for NEW users, and that I am a newbie to computers.
> Okay .... I have been trying to save programs to the CD burner ( for
CD-RWW ) to TRY to figure out how to backup programs, save them, which I
have been successful in doing.
> On to the next step:
> I deleted a small program that I am using, rebooted, and NOW, the problem.
> When I try to reinstall the program, I get the screen that can be explored
for Header sites, and chose the Program Files which is where the program
was.
> The box I'm getting is asking what folder I want to OPEN ( ? ) and when I
click on the Program Files, it keeps referring to the prompt for "opening",
and it just works its way through the folder sites.
> I have tried going to Control Panel, and chose installation ... I chose
the site that the program comes from a CD-ROM.
> I still keep getting prompts for OPENING the folders.
> How can I get this program to be reinstalled in the pathway (PROGRAMS)
where it was when I backed it up to the CD, and then removed using the
Add/Remove controls?
> Okay, keep in mind that I am a "newbie", but, hey, I'm TRYING to learn.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Michelle
I am not sure I really understand your description of what is happening but
there is one very important thing you must realize. When a program is
installed in Windows the necessary files are copied to a folder, usually a
sub-folder under Program Files. Now the important part. Various complex
entries are made in a large file called the registry and without these
entries a program will not usually run. If you just back up the files under
Program Files and then do an Uninstall the registry entries are deleted. To
put the program back into workable condition requires more than just putting
the files back; you have to get the registry entries back which normally
means running the program's Setup again. The setup likely will not work with
the files since it often is looking for certain files that contain the
program's files in a compressed format or other files that do not remain
with the installed files.
If you want to remove a single program, do not delete the files just use the
Windows Control Panel Remove Program feature but you will need to have the
original CD or file to re-install the program.
billh
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