Copying an installed program to another computer.

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Is there away by which one can "de-install" a program so that you have a setup file again in order ro install the program again on another computer.

I have among others a remedial Maths game for grade 5 on my classroom's PCs but I somehow have lost the CD. The business doesn't exist anymore so I can't buy it again. Trust me when I say nothing shady is going on.

Or is there maybe a program to gather all the registry entries and place them again in their proper places if I copied all the files to the other computer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
There is no surefire way, but some pointers:
Obviously copy the files. Then track down the reg key to corresponds to the software. Usually under Local_Computer or current_user then software then the company's name.

Then use regmon and filemon from sysinternals to track down any other stray files/settings that it might access.

Bit of a long shot, but works with some software.

System Mechanic also has some builtin tools to move software, but I never tried it.
 
I'm not sure that a utility for copying an installed application for transferring to another machine exists, so looking for software like that would probably be a waste of time. However, there probably is a reasonably easy way to accomplish this:

Start by copying the installed program folder onto the other machine and run the executable and see what it does. If it bitches about missing DLL's, find them and copy them too. It is still doesn't work, trying searching your registry for the app name and export/import those keys. Most apps will recreate the registry entries though but any settings will almost certainly be lost if they were stored in the registry. Alternatively, start teaching science instead :P
 
Where else would u like to run this software? If it's gonna be on a PC on the same network then simply map the target file from all of your other PC's, so long as the PC hosting it is switched on ;) Alternatively listen to Tony1, go teach science :p
 
There is a way...although i did see failures ( very seldom ) before...Get hold of a program called SystemSuite7...After installation, go to Uninstall; Transport...This program will transfer your files to a Self Extracting file...This file in question need to be coppied to the destination Pc...Once there, itll extract the program including Registry settings and shortcuts :)
 
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