How to install program files

Hello Jim and welcome to Seven Forums.

Sometimes you can just create a shortcut from that program's exe location, and use it to run the program from there. However, it's usually best to just reinstall the program.

Hope this helps some,
Shawn

In addition to what Brink said, in most cases when you install a program, it is not only copying files to a location under Program Files - it is also usually copying files to either somewhere in the windows tree (DLLs) or else somewhere in the users tree (Settings files). Without those in place there is a slightly better than even chance that your app simply will not work.

Even worse, though, is that almost *all* program write info to the registry, and those are usually more required for operation than the files can be - usually without the appropriate reg entries about 75% of programs will fail.

Therefore, the best bet is to simply re-install them.

Tunesmith,

The Windows.old folder is the backed up contents of the previous OS that you have installed on top of. That's all. :)