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Can installed applications be moved from one HD partition to another?
I recently purchased a refurbished 64 bit Win 7-Pro Optiplex 780 PC that arrived with a number of unexpected pre-installed applications on the hard drive's C:\ partition but with no media included. I would like to keep these applications but want to move them to another hard drive partition.
1) Is such a move possible; and, if so, 2) how do I go about doing such a move without damaging the application files and how do I adjust the OS files to find the application(s) in their new location(s)?
One suggestion already received is to save them to an external storage system and then restore them to the new partition. That seems to me to only deal with half of the problem as I can't understand how the OS will know how to find the new location.
Thanks for advise, comments, suggestions, or pointers to an appropriate tutorial.