Windows 7: How to move installed programs to another drive?

vsrawat · 14 Nov 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by thenoo

I have been using an App which does exactly this - its called "Application Mover" and you can d/l it from here free :- Application Mover - Funduc Software.

It changes all Registry references as well as all files - works perfectly for me.

What "free"? they do have a "purchase information and pricing." page. not even telling which versions are free for which purpose.

GHB15 · 30 Nov 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by RugbyHoe

Quote: Originally Posted by Jeffnwm

I recently formatted an sas raid array and it's now empty, I'd like to move some installed programs on a different ide drive to the raid array hoping to speed things up just a little. How can programs and folders/files be moved to a different location and have all the registry information changed so it's all correct within Windows?

As others mentioned, you can't really move apps to another drive without uninstall/reinstall steps, but you can change the default installation path so that all future apps will end up in the desired location. Please see the following tutorial on this site - it's a simple registry mod.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...-installs.html

I am interested in learning this procedure but cannot access it. Has it been removed or don't I have the necessary authority?

optprime · 30 Nov 2012

In general this isn´t possilble because of the registry entries.
But for "simple" programs you can edit the location path in the registry.
On the other hand there are programs which don´t require registry entries, do it works for them.

ventanazsiete · 10 Mar 2013

I registered just for this following reply:

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Windows 7: How to move installed programs to another drive?

How to move installed programs to another drive? problems?