loading programs from an older hard drive

I am trying to load programs from an old hard drive still installed on my
computer but I keep getting the same error message: Operating system is not
presently configured to run this application. In Xp The operating system
would tell you what files were msiing from the regestry and you could add
them manually to get the program to run without reinstalling it How do you do
that In Vista?

By reinstalling the program..........
peter
"Carl Smith" <Carl Smith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am trying to load programs from an old hard drive still installed on my
> computer but I keep getting the same error message: Operating system is
> not
> presently configured to run this application. In Xp The operating system
> would tell you what files were msiing from the regestry and you could add
> them manually to get the program to run without reinstalling it How do you
> do
> that In Vista?

Carl Smith;511414 Wrote:
> I am trying to load programs from an old hard drive still installed on
> my computer but I keep getting the same error message: Operating system
> is not presently configured to run this application. In Xp The operating
> system would tell you what files were msiing from the regestry and you
> could add them manually to get the program to run without reinstalling
> it How do you do that In Vista?

I haven't successfully transferred a mainstream application from one
hard disk to another (without the installation disks) since the days of
Windows 3.1 and MS Word 2.0!

Re-Install the program from the original media. That's the only way.


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Carl Smith wrote:
> I am trying to load programs from an old hard drive still installed on my
> computer but I keep getting the same error message: Operating system is not
> presently configured to run this application. In Xp The operating system
> would tell you what files were msiing from the regestry and you could add
> them manually to get the program to run without reinstalling it How do you do
> that In Vista?



You'll need to install the applications on the new hard drive using
the original installation media. Unless it's a very small, stand-alone
executable a program can't just be copied. If it's a standard
WinXP-compatible application, there'll be dozens of hidden systems files
and an untold number of registry entries that would also have to be
recreated on the new computer.


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