Hello Ben, On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 at 19:07:09 [GMT -0600], you wrote: BP> I Have a new computer system coming in next week and would like to BP> move TheBat and all its associated files to the new system. What BP> are my options...
<Moderator> Please try to avoid changing the subject of a thread to something completely unrelated. Those who thread by reference will never see your post if the thread topic doesn't interest them (even if your message has a different subject, because your message will be buried in a thread that is of a different subject than yours). </Moderator> But to answer your question, do the following: 1. Click Start button, Choose Run, type REGEDIT, hit enter 2. Click the plus in front of HKEY_CURRENT_USER 3. Click the plus in front of Software 4. Click once on RIT, from the menu click REGISTRY, then EXPORT REGISTRY FILE, save it to a floppy disk or something you can get to from your new machine. 5. Copy/save/archive/backup your C:\Program Files\The Bat! directory to CD or ZIP disk or whatever. 6. On the new machine, install the latest official release of TheBat! However when you get to the part about creating accounts, exit the installation. 7. Unzip or un-archive your backup of TheBat into the C:\Program Files directory. 8. Double-click the exported registry key, and import it to the registry. 9. Start The Bat! normally, and it'll come up totally registered with your key and all your accounts, filters, folders, and settings will be correct. The only caveat to this, is that you need to install The Bat! to the same drive and directory on the new machine as the old. You can move it to a different drive/directory, but you're looking at a lot of work depending on how much you've customized The Bat. The other issue is that if your new machine is NT/2K/XP, when you do step 8, you need to be logged in as the user who will be accessing the The Bat accounts. You can do step 8 for more than one user though, so log in as each user, do step 8, and then each of those log-ons will work fine. That should cover it. Cheers, Leif Gregory -- List Moderator (and fellow registered end-user) PCWize Editor / ICQ 216395 / PGP Key ID 0x7CD4926F Web Site <http://www.PCWize.com> TB FAQ <http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/FAQ.html> Using The Bat! 1.62/Beta6 under Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 on a P4 1.6Ghz OC'd to 2.32Ghz with 512MB. Tagline of the day: A 1200 baud brain attached to a 28800 baud mouth. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
