Techy Help - Moving Software


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Thinking about either buying or building a new PC. As I have legal copies of software like Office and Photoshop, is it possible to move them over to the new one? I've done something similar with Automation Software I use at work by transferring the licence but not sure it works the same way.
Alternatively could I utilise my existing hard drive and use it as a secondary hard drive?
 
Not sure how you would go about moving registry entries and the like.

However, be careful with the microsoft stuff. I had a legit copy of Office but could not use it after 5 installs. 4 of those installs had been correctly uninstalled but it was still stopping me using it, hardly surprising that so many people pirate stuff.
 
If you have legit boxed software rather than stuff pre-installed on your old machine then you can do it no problems.

Make sure you've got all of the media and licence keys for each piece of software and just install them on the new box. To stay legal, you have to uninstall the old software. Technically you should do this first, although I don't think anyone would complain if you waited until you are sure it works on the new PC before uninstalling from the old one.

Moving hard drives wouldn't work. Registry entries would be missing as Kborom has said and also some shared components might not be on the new PC.
 
If you have legit boxed software rather than stuff pre-installed on your old machine then you can do it no problems.

Make sure you've got all of the media and licence keys for each piece of software and just install them on the new box. To stay legal, you have to uninstall the old software. Technically you should do this first, although I don't think anyone would complain if you waited until you are sure it works on the new PC before uninstalling from the old one.

Moving hard drives wouldn't work. Registry entries would be missing as Kborom has said and also some shared components might not be on the new PC.

Cheers.
Photoshop is boxed and I have a version of Office 2007 boxed but I got a cheap version of 2010 through a scheme at work (tenner I think) and I had to download it.
 
Cheers.
Photoshop is boxed and I have a version of Office 2007 boxed but I got a cheap version of 2010 through a scheme at work (tenner I think) and I had to download it.

2007 will be fine. You'll need to download 2010 again if you didn't keep the files last time. Make sure you can find the email with the licence key!
 
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