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I have a program installed on windows 7 in my laptop. I wish to install the same program on windows 7 in my desktop. unfortunately, I don’t have the source file with me anymore. How can I copy the entire program from one machine to another machine and make it run?
It depends on the program if that’s possible or not.
You would have to know, which parts the installer copied to your computer and to which directories. Even then it is possible that the installer checked for prerequisites, found them on the laptop, but are missing on the desktop computer.
You can try to copy the files from the %ProgramFiles% directory, but it is poor luck if that works and you can’t be sure that it works correctly. So your best option is to organise the installer package again.