Doug, Sounds like you copied, and did not re-install any of the programs. Won't work that way, especially coming from an XP installation to a computer with Windows 7. You have to start from scratch with any programs you want to have running on your Windows 7 machine, which means running the original installation discs or programs.
Dave Carlson Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer ----- Original Message ----- From: "douglas richard dexheimer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 08:24 PM Subject: Re: defunct e drive my brother bought an external hard drive during a visit to chicago last spring, connected it to my USB, and when he returned home he copied my old address books, documents, programs, and other folders and files from my crashed xp hard drive (which he had taken to his house) to my win7 computer using a remote program called teamviewer. once i found the above-mentioned items on the e drive, i copied or moved most of them to my current system using explorer or the my computer app. everything clear now? Douglas Richard Dexheimer Chief of Braille Productions Born-Again Productions The Friedman Place, Apt.308 5527 N. Maplewood Ave. Chicago, IL 60625 cell phone 913-244-0612 [email protected] On 2/13/2016 10:00 PM, Brian Vogel wrote: > Doug, > > Now I'll do technical hair splitting, but it's not trivial. > What you say, "You need to install those programs," is frequently > simply not true, and that's more the case for a number of older Windows > programs that were never "installed" in the full meaning of that term in > the first place. > > Installation on any Windows system requires the involvement > of changes to the registry if one is using the term "install" in the way > Microsoft has used it. You can still see this dichotomy in NVDA itself: > there is an installed version, which involves changes to the registry > (and sometimes running components as services that can be started before > any single user logs in - e.g., screen readers that operate on the log > in screen) and a portable version which makes none. Someone else > pointed out earlier that they put the installed and portable versions of > NVDA on their machine in case an upgrade makes it impossible to start > the installed version they still have the portable one, though resident > on their hard drive rather than a USB drive, available as backup. So > long as the system boots into Windows a portable/stand alone program can > generally run whether a number of installed programs can or not. > > I've been doing simple copying of Microsoft Photo Editor > for decades now because it can be run as a stand alone program with no > installation required. > > Based on what Doug has described it seems more likely than > not that this was a collection of stand alone programs that did not > require installation. Of course, if any were not, then what you've said > stands for that select group. I just can't see how he could have copied > stuff off an XP machine to an external drive and trigger those programs > in the way he describes if they were not "portable"/stand alone programs > as opposed to installed ones. > > Brian > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to [email protected] Archives located at: http://www.groups.io/g/jfw/threads Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, posts received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at [email protected]. -=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View This Message (#38573): https://groups.io/g/jfw/message/38573 Mute This Thread: https://groups.io/mt/608635?uid=21656 Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/jfw/editsub?uid=21656 Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/jfw/leave/46502/1292106160/xyzzy Group Home: https://groups.io/g/jfw Contact Group Owner: [email protected] Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
