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Resolved Adding a Program to Windows 7

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by rondom, 2010/08/22.

  1. 2010/08/22
    rondom

    rondom Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I just bought a laptop with windows 7. I have 2 programs on my Desktop with windows XP. I can download the 2 programs I have from the issuers website and use a backup I have on my software in XP and then restore it to the windows 7 programs. I am very confused after reading some issues on google links about Windows 7 having 2 program listings, one has 86x. Should I be doing anything when adding the new software? I did add one program and did a restore from the backup I made but it isn't working. Nothing happens. Thougt I'd check with the experts here as I haven't heard from the software supplier yet. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
     
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  2. 2010/08/22
    PeteC

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    If you are running a 64 bit version of Windows 7 you will have 2 Program Files folders under C:\.

    32 bit Programs install into Program Files (x86) and 64 bit programs install into Program Files.

    If I understand you correctly you cannot restore a program from XP to 7 - you must install the program on 7. There is no guarantee that it will run on 7, but the chances are good. I have 15 + year old software running fine on 7 x64.

    The programs are almost certainly 32 bit and will install by default into the Program Files (x86) folder.
     
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  4. 2010/08/23
    Arie

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    Nothing to be confused about, as Pete noted above, the program will be installed in the correct location automatically when you run the programs install routine.

    That's the correct way to install a program (in any version of Windows).
     
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  5. 2010/08/23
    rondom

    rondom Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thank you, so if I install a program on Windows 7, it knows where to go. I'll hopefully find out why the restore doesn't work.
     
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  6. 2010/08/23
    PeteC

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    Yes, absolutely.
    We may be at cross purposes here regarding the use of the word 'Restore' - perhaps you would outline exactly what you mean by .....
    You cannot transfer an installed program from one OS to another. but if you have saved the installation file(s) you can copy those from the XP machine to the 7 machine and run them to install the program(s) on 7. Is this where you are having problems?
     
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  7. 2010/08/24
    rondom

    rondom Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I downloaded the program QT from a website and did a backup of the files on the same program on my XP computer and transferred them to the new windows 7 computer. The problem are the backup files which are zip files are not unzipping.

    One thing I did and probobly stupid of me was to copy the QT program 86x files in windows 7 to program QT in windows 7, thinking maybe it would work, and ended up with the same program files in both places. I decided to do an uninstall and while it said it was successful, the program files are still on both Program and Program 86x, so it obviously was not uninstalled. QT by the way is just name of the program I'm working with. Now I've created a new monster haven't I? Can the QT program on both programs be uninstalled?
     
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  8. 2010/08/24
    PeteC

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    The program files remain in the location you copied them to because they were copied as opposed to installed by the program installer. They should be safe to delete.

    To remove any remnants from the uninstall try running Revo Uninstaller

    Can you unzip the installation files from your download to the XP computer on the XP computer and copy them across.

    Might be simpler to download the files again from the source directly to your 7 laptop.
     
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  9. 2010/08/25
    rondom

    rondom Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Great ideas Pete, but I'd like to review with you before I do it.

    I can simply delete the QT program files I copied and pasted in Program Files without the X86. Since the original QT was downloaded from the source to Program Files X86, I can leave them and do another download from source which will overwrite the original, I think? Or better to use Revo and then download program.

    I would then take the backup zip folder in XP, there are 5 files in the folder, and unzip it and either send or put on flash drive to new win 7 computer and copy to QT program there. Pete, if I unzip a folder do all files get unzipped in the folder or will I have to unzip each file? Would it be best to unzip at another location like desktop etc to easily identify them? Thanks so much for your help and patience.
     
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  10. 2010/08/25
    PeteC

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    I would first try RevoUninstaller, but I doubt that it will do much as I understand that the program was not installed as such.

    I would then locate the QT folder into which you copied the QT files and rename it QTOld

    Then unzip the files on the XP machine and copy the files to a USB stick

    Insert the USB stick into the 7 computer and install the program directly from the USB stick

    Once this has been accomplished and the program is working you can safely delete the QT old folder.
     
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  11. 2010/08/26
    rondom

    rondom Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    This windows 7 is becoming a monster as issues of all sorts need to be resolved. Now that I've reinstalled the QT program and added the backup files I am getting this message: The file c:\program files x86\quote tracker\cache\SDDATA is read-only Quote tracker requires this file to be writable.Please remove read-only atribute from this file and start again.

    I see the issue has been around a long time when looking in google for windows 7 read-only attribute. I went through alot of the things I could underatand like being an administrator. I am also the only one using this computer but I looked for places to be the administrator. So that's where I am now Pete. Hard to believe this issue has been around since 2009.
     
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  12. 2010/08/26
    PeteC

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    Have you removed or tried to remove the read-only attribute?

    Right click on the SDDATA file > Properties and on the General tab uncheck Read-only.

    There are 2 levels of Administrator in Windows 7 - normal administrator level which is probably what you are and an elevated administrator level invoked by right clicking on a desktop icon or .exe file and selecting 'Run as Administrator'.
     
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