Comments on: Application Mover

By: Visitor

Visitor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:09:44 +0000

Saw your posts on COA2. I have had this program since 2002 or. You can e-mail me if you want and I can send it to you. It’s in a zip file of about 600K.

Cheers

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By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:25:51 +0000

The free explorer alternative xplorer^2 lite has similar functionality ( i mean ntfs hard link creation) too as far as I remember.

By: RG

RG — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:24:39 +0000

Got to agree with Jojo that this is one underdeveloped area, I can name a few instances I could use something like this. This may be something to be suggested at a place like donationcoder perhaps, I will try to post about this article and the idea of something like this in general there.

By: Mike S

Mike S — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:06:17 +0000

Martin, the *installer* for COA2 won’t work in XP (or maybe it will, see below) but the program itself does work IF you can get its files from another computer or from a previous installation.

I had COA2 installed on my Win98 system and it works fine after upgrading to XP (on top of 98). I’ve used it only a couple of times – but as recently as last fall – to move a program.

Neil Rubenking himself addressed the issue on the pcmag forum last year:

“COA2 is a very self-contained program. If you managed to install it on some *other* computer you could just copy all the files from its folder to a parallel folder on your XP SP2 computer. Create a shortcut and you’d be ready to roll.”

http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/1004399985.aspx

He also notes that the installer itself won’t work on XP but others disagree and say they’ve gotten it to install.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:03:40 +0000

Here is a previous article about Junctions that I have written: http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/21/create-ntfs-junctions-aka-directory-symbolic-links/

By: Visitor

Visitor — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:59:50 +0000

How about a tutorial on how to do this using either Junction or SHJunction or Windows Shell Extension?

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:39:00 +0000

I found that one too but they state explicitly that the installer will not work on Windows XP or newer operating systems.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:37:02 +0000

I have an old program that was written by PC Magazine called Change Of Address (COA2) long ago but still works for this purpose. You have to manually move the files but it changes any INI files and registry refs.

I think there are newer versions available but you have to subscribe to PC Magazine’s software ($19.95/yr?).

Surprised that no one has written free programs that do this! Would be time better spent that writing yet another file renamer or photo resizer app.