How to install the copied program. Transfer installed programs from one Windows to another using Laplink PCmover

Software developers are constantly making programs easier to use, but installing them takes a long time and is a very tedious process. That is why the question of how to transfer a program to a PC in working condition worries users.

Transferring programs from one computer to another can be useful in the following cases:

You need to reinstall Windows;

Do you want to buy a new PC and transfer previously used programs there;

You need to replace the hard drive (hard drive) without losing the necessary data.

The easiest way is to transfer the program to another computer through PickMeApp.

Transferring programs usingPickMeApp.

The easiest and most affordable product for transferring installed programs is this applicationPickMeApp.

1. The application can be downloaded from our website.

2. Installing the utility is quite easy. But there are a few buts, during installation, select installation in the C drive, the Program Files folder and, for example, the port folder (this is what the path C:\Program Files\Port will look like). Also during installation you will be asked to install 3 more programs that you may not need. In the gray text boxes, press the Decline button 3 times. If you do not do this, Opera, Uninstaller and RegCleaner will be installed!

3. PickMeApp works only in English, but everything is clear and so when working withPickMeApp. If you have any questions, just read these instructions carefully. The program will sort all applications that are installed on your computer into two folders: Qualified Applications and Nonqualified Applications (those that can be transferred and those that cannot). You can only migrate applications from the first Qualified Applications folder. The big disadvantage of the program is that not all programs can be transferred:

4. Check the boxes next to the desired program and click “Capture” to move.

5. Wait until the copying is complete and click the “Save As Exe” button on the right side of the window:

6. All program files will be saved in the folderPickMeApp/TAPPS:

7. Copy them to a flash drive or hard drive. Install the utility on another computerPickMeApp and launch the selected programs:

8. That's it, the transfer is complete.

Be sure to pay attention before transferring the program to another computer:

Programs can be transferred only as an administrator;

Even when using paid applications, large software such as Microsoft Office will not work after moving;

Along with the files, you can move viruses and infected files located in the copied folder.

So you have moved all the programs you need to a new or different computer. But what should you do if you need programs that cannot be moved usingPickMeApp?

Create or download a portable version of the desired program.

First, I’ll tell you what the portable version of the program is. This is a program that can run on any computer from any storage medium. Typically, programs are installed on a computer, and if, for example, you copy the program to another computer, it will not function correctly. The difference between the portable version is that it can work anywhere and is not tied to any computer. You can carry such a program with you on a flash drive and no matter what computer you run it on, it will work everywhere, naturally within the family of operating systems.

I won’t tell you how to create a portable program; for many it may seem complicated. You don’t have to create it, but simply download almost any program on the Internet in the portable version. Just write in the search “download program_name portable” - we find and download the program you need. If you have any questions, you can ask them on our forum.

Buying a new computer or reinstalling the operating system on an old one is quite a joyful event, because working on a clean, uncluttered system is a pleasure. But all this joy can be overshadowed by the transfer of truly important and necessary applications to only the installed system. Why you ask? Well, for example, there was no installation disk at hand, and all the complex settings of the necessary programs had long been forgotten.

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The program has been updated to version 5.13.2. And we updated it in the Russian version...
A utility called PickMeApp will allow you to quickly and easily transfer already installed applications along with individual settings to another computer. In this case, the user does not have to use the original disk with the desired program and waste time on re-installation. After launching, PickMeApp scans your computer and lists all the programs it can transfer to the left panel. Then the selected programs are packaged (along with their data from the windows registry and settings) to a flash drive, external drive or network drive. After this, PickMeApp is launched on another computer and the previously packaged programs are installed.
The product's user interface boasts exceptional ease of use. On the left side of the screen there is a list of installed applications, and on the right panel the transferred programs are displayed, in addition, here the user can configure some transfer settings. After selecting the required applications, just click on the Capture Marked Application button and PickMeApp will independently perform all the necessary operations. The process may take some time depending on the size of the source applications.

Utility PickMeApp makes it possible to view information about any application, such as the application version, the expected size of the future archive, the time of its creation, etc. To do this, you need to left-click on the application you are interested in. Below the information there are three buttons: Capture- app capture, Repair- restore the application, Uninstall- delete the application.

PickMeApp can be used to transfer a huge number of common software products to a new device, from integrated development environments, graphics packages and desktop publishing systems to small system utilities.

If you are using a profile “My Capture Application”, then the application will be packaged in a file with the extension .tap and written to the Tapps subfolder (a subfolder of the utility itself). If you want to save the file in a different folder, you need to add a new profile. To do this, click “Create new profile” or activate it by clicking the left mouse button.

After selecting the applications needed to transfer, you need to start the process of creating their installation packages, which include all the necessary files, settings, and registry branches. To start, press the button “Capture marked application”.

All ready-made packages can be easily transferred to your profile using the button Import. To deploy such packages on a new system, just mark them in the right panel of PickMeApp and click “Install marked application” run the installation. It is possible to sort applications by size, name, creation date, application version, or by additional options:

— installed — displays applications already installed on the PC;
— not installed — displays applications that are not installed;
— selected - displays selected applications;
— clear - cancels the previous filter and displays all applications.
By clicking on the “Click here for support information” link, you can view detailed information about the selected application. It is also worth knowing that if this program is already installed on your PC, it will be marked with a green circle. There are two options to choose from: with installation and unpacked and ready to use, i.e. ported...

Released: 2012
OS: Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
Interface language: Russian
Size: 6.4 MB / 4.2 MB
The material was kindly provided by the author of Russification pp0312
PickMeApp 5.13.2:

Officially, installation is the process of installing a program on your computer. During installation, the program copies itself (most often) to the “Program Files” folder, writes the data it needs in the system registry, and sometimes places additional libraries or system files in the operating system itself.
The installation process is handled by a special program - installer. Most often, the installer includes the program itself and internal instructions for installing it.
This official explanation, as practice shows, is not clear to everyone.
Imagine your own kitchen. It will be like a computer. The food processor that you want to install in your kitchen is the program that you are going to install on your computer.
Now everything is simple. You bought a food processor. It is semi-assembled in a box, not connected to electricity. Of course, such a combine in a box is of no use. He does not work.
Now you, with a packed harvester in your hands, are an installer. What will you do as an installer? And there are instructions about this inside the box with the combine. You take it out, read it and do everything according to the instructions - remove the components and assemblies of the combine from the box, connect them in a certain sequence, and connect the combine to the power supply. You put away the attachments and spare parts from the combine that you don’t need right now, along with the box, in a special cupboard.
Now your food processor is ready for use (the program is installed on the computer).
Second question(Is it possible to simply copy the installed program to another computer), I think now it has become more clear to you. “Can an installed food processor be moved to another kitchen?” The answer is no.
In another kitchen, the food processor must first be connected to electricity (the program must be registered in the system registry). Unlike sticking a plug into a socket, manually writing a program in the registry is more complicated and more dangerous for the operating system. In addition, if you want to use some functions of the program (change the attachments in the food processor), you will find that they are not in the new place (the attachments remained in the cabinet in the old kitchen). And for the program, perhaps these files will be very necessary, and the program will completely refuse to start (and may even cause the operating system to crash).
Well, the third question(if I no longer need the program, why can’t I just erase it), I think it’s completely obvious to you now. Because garbage remains in the operating system. You threw out the combine, but the wire from it remained in the socket. And a box with now unnecessary attachments and spare parts takes up space in the closet.
To properly remove a program from your computer, you need a special program - an uninstaller. This program contains instructions on what and where it was copied, laid out, and installed. And the uninstaller correctly deletes all files, folders and system registry keys that contained a program that you no longer need.
In conclusion, I would like to say that not all programs are so complex. Some programs allow you to copy themselves from one computer to another, and each time they start, they check whether everything is in order with their files in the system and the keys in the registry, and, if necessary, carry out the installation themselves. As a rule, they do not perform uninstallation, and garbage accumulates in the system after them.
There are also programs that do not need installation at all. They do not install anything into the system and can be launched from a flash drive or CD.

The question in the title of this article has two possible answers, depending on what exactly the user needs at the moment.

How to write a program to a flash drive. Option one

The simplest of these options is when you just need to transfer a file of a program, for example, its installer, to a flash drive and nothing more. This can be done simply, using standard functions of the operating system, or some third-party tools. The easiest way to do this is to use Windows Explorer or some other file manager. At the same time, you can copy the program to a flash drive in a lot of different ways. Naturally, the first thing you should do is connect the flash drive itself to the computer.

By the way, everything written here can equally apply to both regular USB flash drives and flash cards. In this matter there is no fundamental difference between them.

Next, we can select the file we need in Explorer and, depending on the version of the operating system, select the item “ Copy to..." And in the window that opens, where you need to specify the destination for the copied file, find your flash drive.

Another way is to use drag and drop, the so-called “drag-n-drop” method. You just need to select the file with the left button and, without releasing it, drag it with the mouse to the desired location - folder, flash drive, etc. - and then let go. If you use Windows Explorer, then on the left it will show a tree of folders and computer devices, in which you can easily find the flash drive we need.

Another method available in Explorer on some versions of Windows is to use the Send to menu. Select the desired file with the right mouse button and in the context menu that appears, find the line “ Send..." If you hold the mouse cursor over this construction site, it will expand into a more detailed list, in which one of the options will include the flash drive to which we need to copy the file.

There is another, universal, copying method that works always and everywhere, regardless of the versions of the operating system or the file managers used - the “copy-paste” method.

The word “copy-paste” comes from the English combination “copy-paste”, which literally means “copy-paste”.

To use it, you need to select the file you are looking for and select “ Copy"(note: not "Copy to...", but simply "Copy"). Then go to the desired folder (in our case, a flash drive) and select the option “ Insert" That's it, the file will be copied to the location we need.

It is much more convenient to copy-paste using hotkey combinations rather than menu functions. In this case, the key combination “Ctrl+C” will correspond to the “Copy” command, and the “Ctrl+V” combination will correspond to the “Paste” command.

This is all that is needed if the user just needs to copy the program file to a flash drive.

How to write a program to a flash drive. Option two

But much more often, the answer to the question in the title requires something a little different. You need to not only copy the program there, but also make sure that this program can work from this flash drive. Purely theoretically, there is nothing complicated about this, but in practical application this will not always be possible, since several important points must be taken into account.

Let's say you already have the desired program or game installed on Windows. Then you can try to simply copy its files and folders to a flash drive (by any of the methods described above). But it is far from a fact that it will work. Or another option - it will work, but only when the flash drive is connected to your computer. She will not want to work with any other PC.

There may be three reasons for this behavior. The first is that the files needed by the program were copied during its installation not only to its own folder, but also to other system directories. Therefore, when simply copying to a flash drive, you cannot copy everything that the program needs to work, and understanding the details is usually quite difficult and time-consuming. The second reason is that the program needs some system files to work, which your Windows has, but others, for example, your friend, may not have. And third, when installing the program, it is written too deeply into the operating system, and when you try to run it from a flash drive, its connections with the operating system are broken, and all sorts of errors occur, or the program refuses to work at all.

However, no one forbids you to try. Find the folder with the files of the desired program on the system partition of the disk and copy it entirely to the USB flash drive. By any of the methods we described above. And you try to run it from a flash drive. It works, without glitches or failures - you are glad that everything turned out well. If not, think about other options.

Another compromise method that you can try. Connect your USB flash drive to your computer and run the installation program. Specify the USB flash drive as the destination folder, and the program will install on it. Now it will work from this flash drive, but, most likely, only when the flash drive is connected specifically to your computer; it may not work with other PCs. Again, no one forbids you to try.

And finally, how to do it right

In order for programs to be guaranteed to work from flash drives and other connected devices, you need to use their portable - so-called “portable” - versions ( Portable). These are versions that are specially adapted for such work. To install them, you just need to transfer the folder with such a program to a flash drive and find the start file in it to launch. Often such versions come packaged in an archive that you just need to unpack onto a flash drive.

It should be noted that portable versions of programs can be used not only from flash drives, but also from a stationary hard drive. If such programs are placed in a separate folder on a partition different from the one where the operating system is installed, then you can seriously save time and effort during subsequent reinstallations of Windows - in the future you will no longer have to install and configure these programs again. They will remain fully ready for use since the last installation of the system. All that remains is to drag out the shortcuts to their start files onto the Desktop (or any convenient place).

Unfortunately, not all programs now have portable versions. But many still have them. There are some in our software catalog. To find them, pay special attention to the word “ Portable» on the files page of any program.

I urgently need to reinstall Windows and the question arose whether there is any universal way transfer the program with all the settings from the old operating system to the new one without reinstalling. First of all, I’m interested in the torrent client, I have about 100 distributions in it, I also need to transfer the Opera and Mozilla browser, they have a lot of necessary bookmarks, and the VirtualBox virtual machine, it has three operating systems installed, I don’t dare be more impudent. A year ago I was in the same situation, I tried to transfer everything myself to a new Windows, I used the instructions on the Internet, but unfortunately I couldn’t transfer anything, you may find it funny, but for me it was a disaster, so I ask for help.

How to transfer the program

I have long been asked to tell you how to transfer a program from one computer to another, such an article is being prepared, as for transferring programs from an old Windows to a new one, of course there is a way and I will explain it to you now. One thing, first of all, we’ll look at transferring programs to Windows XP and at the end of the article there is the same information for Windows 7. The method is simple and proven many times, but unfortunately it’s not universal and won’t work for some programs, but it means something else will do, experiment , if you succeed and the program works, then in most cases you will have to enter a key, be prepared for this.

• For the future, Denis, if you need to carry out risky manipulations with a computer, your own or someone else’s, and you are not sure of a favorable outcome, first of all, before your experiments, make a backup of the system, for example in the Acronis program. If something goes wrong for you, you will have the opportunity to roll back, reconsider your actions, find the mistake and start over, believe me, this is very convenient (creating a restore point sometimes does not help, remember this). For example, I am often asked to unlock the operating system from a virus. Send an SMS and you cannot reinstall Windows, in this case, before searching, I always create a backup of the system, searching for the Winlock virus is, in principle, not difficult, but there is always the possibility of erroneous actions, and if I have a backup, I feel much more confident .

So we need transfer programs uTorrent, Opera, Mozilla and the VirtualBox virtual machine, and then we’ll talk about how to transfer other programs.

First of all, let's move the program uTorrent with all the settings. It’s better to copy the working folder of the uTorrent program from the folder to a flash drive C:\Program Files, it is called uTorrent.

Secondly, copy the uTorrent folder from the folder Application Data, it is hidden, in order to see it you need to remove this attribute, Start->Control Panel, then Folder Options->View, then check the “Show hidden files and folders” item and uncheck the “Hide protected system files” item.

It is located at C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\ uTorrent, it is in Application Data that all service program folders are located,

We also transfer it to a flash drive, as you can see, the name of the folders is the same Opera, but the contents are different, do not confuse them, after reinstalling the operating system, you will need to transfer everything we copied to its original place. By the way, if you open the uTorrent folder located in Application Data, you will see all your distributions in it.

• As for Opera and Mozilla programs, we do the same with them.

Reinstalling the operating system. We do not install the programs again, but return the folders we copied to the new Windows XP to their places, one in C:\Program Files, and the other in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\. We launch programs with a file with the extension .exe, for example uTorrent.exe

from a personal folder located in C:\Program Files. Launched? You can make sure all your distributions are in place.
VirtualBox virtual machine, before reinstalling the operating system, copy the personal folder of the Oracle machine to the USB flash drive at the address C:\Program Files\Oracle.

We also copy the VirtualBox VMs folder to the address C:\Documents and Settings\Username\VirtualBox VMs,

I want to say that it will be quite large in volume, depending on the operating systems installed in VirtualBox.

That's it, reinstall Windows XP. We do not install the VirtualBox program again, but simply return the folders we copied to their places. We launch your virtual operating systems for the first time directly from the C:\Documents and Settings\Username\VirtualBox VMs folder.

Regarding transferring programs to a freshly installed one Windows 7 we do almost the same thing, only instead of the Application Data user data folder in Windows 7, we use the folder Roaming, located at C:\Users\ALEX\AppData\Roaming.

As for transferring the VirtualBox virtual machine to Windows 7, the process is no different from transferring to Windows XP.

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