Can You Copy an Installed Program to Another Computer Without Program Installer

[Harry]

Is it possible to copy an installed program to another computer without using the program installer. I wouldn't want to make an image of an entire disk to do that but just copy one already installed program from my laptop to my desktop.

I know that an installed program has different things installed in different areas of windows but I just thought that maybe there might be a way or a program that might be able to find and copy those hidden parts of the already installed program and then put them in the proper places on the desktop.

[Panama Red]

Only works if the program is not involved with the registry. Generally, if it is not listed in Add/Remove programs area of Control Panel, you can access it from another computer and download it. If it is in Add/Remove, it won't work.

[Force Flow]

Other than mainly small diagnostic applications, I haven't come across any large programs that will transfer from one modern system to another. Now, with win95 and once in a while, 98SE, I was able to move programs, but anything after that, it's not very likely.

[Reaps]

Originally posted by Harry Is it possible to copy an installed program to another computer without using the program installer. I wouldn't want to make an image of an entire disk to do that but just copy one already installed program from my laptop to my desktop. I know that an installed program has different things installed in different areas of windows but I just thought that maybe there might be a way or a program that might be able to find and copy those hidden parts of the already installed program and then put them in the proper places on the desktop.

also if it has files installed into a different folder. say it has to install certain dll's into the system folder, then u would have to find out what files it uses and u would have to move those too, and that is near impossible.

[Force Flow]

Actually, with some programs, when you try to run them, it says what file is missing, so you can then look for it.