Change of Address
               Provided on this issue's disk

Recently I had to buy a new hard drive, which meant clearing some
programs off the smaller of my two current drives, which was the
one I was going to replace, and reinstalling them on the other one.
Ted-i-ous! But then I spotted an article in a supplement with the
Daily Mail which mentioned a useful freeware program which could
enable you to just copy a program from one drive to another.
Normally this isn't possible with Windows because it totally
confuses the registry so that Windows can't find the program. Time
to investigate!  I downloaded the 32-bit version of the program for
Windows 95, 98 and NT from the Net and briefly read the docs with
it. It certainly sounded just what I was looking for. I decided to
test it out with a fairly simple program, Ulead's PhotoExpress, and
see what happened before I really put it through its paces with
something like PhotoSuite.

COA uses a wizard and runs in a small window. It first asks you to
identify the start and end folders (eg E:\ULEAD and G:\ULEAD if you
want to move the program from E to G as I did). I had already
copied the directory over. The following screens ask you to
identify which INI files to search, which shortcuts, and what area
of the Registry. In all cases there are defaults and a system of
green, red and amber lights show if there is likely to be a problem
with anything you choose. The final screen lets you check your
choices, back-tracking if necessary, then pressing Next starts COA
searching your hard drives.

After checking the results of the search and making any last minute
changes, a final mouse click sets the conversion underway.
PhotoExpress transferred without problems, as did all the other
programs I tried except for McAfee's Anti-virus ... but one
reinstallation rather than half a dozen was a great time saver.
Options are given to dump both the search log and file change log
to disk, and it may be possible to reverse the process in many
cases. All in all a very useful program which is why I've included
it on this issue's disk.
                                                        Sue
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