Move installed application

blackpearl · 05-07-2007, 03:24 PM

Consider this scenerio: You have some programs installed in drive C and now the drive is running out of space. You wish to reallocate the programs to another drive but cut-pasting the programs won't work. You don't even have the setup files of those programs so you can't reinstall them on another drive. What will you do? Enter Application Mover

Application Mover is a tool that relocates installed programs from one path to another on your hard disk. Application Mover takes files found in the path specified in the 'Current Path' field and moves them to the 'New Path' path. Application Mover scans the windows registry for references to files located in the 'Current' field and changes those references to the 'New' path. Application Mover also scans all windows shortcuts in the Start Menu and adjusts path references to the new program location. Finally, *.ini and Install.log files present in the original program path are checked for strings matching the old path location. If found, these strings are changed to the new location. Confirmation dialogs are available if you enable the 'Confirm changes' checkbox . If a file is 'busy' and cannot be changed to the new location, a reboot prompt is offered. Pending changes are then completed after the reboot.

http://www.funduc.com/app_mover.htm

Unfortunately, its a paid software. The trial version is limited to only 10 uses.

Charan · 05-07-2007, 03:40 PM

Very interesting app. Thanks for the info.

sakumar79 · 05-07-2007, 04:06 PM

Thanks for the info... Long time back, Norton issued a software that did something similar... But it was very slow since it had to scan the registry and a lot of files too... I guess the same may be true here, but it is worth checking out..

Arun

hullap · 05-07-2007, 04:31 PM

does it even changes registry

Garbage · 05-07-2007, 05:08 PM

^^ nice utility !!!

rajat22 · 05-07-2007, 06:08 PM

Wonderful application, using since a long time.
It changes everything including registry.
None of he moved application, including MS Office 2007, did not give slightest trouble.
DO UNCHECK ... Cofirm Changes or every moment you have to click OK

krates · 05-07-2007, 06:58 PM

k thanks

ratedrsuperstar · 05-07-2007, 09:00 PM

fabulous!

gxsaurav · 05-07-2007, 10:47 PM

Wonderful Little Apps. 3rd party developers are indeed the real innovators out there. MS should really consider giving the developer a job in Windows team.