Putting Software on CD

by umbrella415 Jul 15, 2007 2:58AM PDT

How do I put software that is currently on my computer onto a CD so that I can use it later to install the software on another computer?

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Burn the installer...

by John.Wilkinson Jul 15, 2007 3:22AM PDT

If you have the original installer, a CD burner, and CD burning software you can burn it to CD as you would any other file. Please note, though, that you cannot simply burn the program located in C:\Program Files...it must be the installer which you originally downloaded. Also, if you don't have CD burning software you can use CDBurnerXP, a freeware solution.

Hope this helps,
John

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Let me exspand a little. . .

by Coryphaeus Jul 15, 2007 7:21AM PDT

If the software is already installed, you can't do it. It will not copy or move, period. Period!

You need the original installer program. If you have that, just burn it to a CD.

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Actually

by jackson dougless Jul 15, 2007 10:17AM PDT

SOME programs will run just fine from a CD or any other kind of removable media, but they're usually small third party programs. The various Mozilla programs, for example, will run just fine from a CD or flash drive. If you aren't using the portable versions with the specialized launcher, then your settings will be stored on the computer's HDD instead of the flash drive, but aside from that...

If you were persistent enough, and really knew what you were doing, I'm betting you could get just about any program to run off a CD or flash drive. Still, the path of fewest potential problems is to just store the installers.

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