Why dont programs work if copied from another pc or external?

[Draknyte1]

A while ago i did a backup off all my programs and documents before my pc died...

Some of these programs will not work if i copy them back to program files...

EG microsoft office doesnt work as it isnt installed?
And i cant re-install as it was on my pc when i bought it.

If anyone can offer help on how to get these programs to work i would appreciate it...

 

[busterkomo]

Because all of your registry remains unchanged.

 

[Draknyte1]

no way to do anything about this?

 

[Dr Super Good]

You need to back up your registery in future...
Basically the data is still there, but your PC has no idea that it is there. You will need to get some sort of repair for the programs which will rebuild the missing registery.

 

[Draknyte1]

well i want to use office 2003... cause openoffice is a load of $#!t...

 

[Dr Super Good]

Well google for a repair or regestery fixer, I certainly do not know one and I doubt most people do. This is all because office binds into the OS...

 

[Deathcom3s]

well i want to use office 2003... cause openoffice is a load of $#!t...

I disagree, for one, OpenOffice is free, and it's pretty dang close to Office 2003/2007.

 

[Eleandor]

Open Office has some problems when it comes to creating clean diagrams (you know: arrows from 1 box to another). But the only documents I ever make only require "basic" text markup, everything I can do with google docs. And for basic things (basically anything you can do when posting a reply here) google docs > anything else because your files are available everywhere and can be shared.

 

[Draknyte1]

im getting office 07 off a friend... cause i really hate openoffice and windwos 7 also hates it

 

[toofless]

That's a surprise. Microsoft made another OS with basic compatability issues? REALLY? *cough*monopoly*cough*

 

[Deleted member 157129]

If Office came with your computer, you ought to have an install disc which contains it. So I'm guessing you didn't install all the discs that came with the computer.

 

[Draknyte1]

i did not get an office disk when i purchased my computer...

 

[Deleted member 157129]

So it was a trial?

 

[Draknyte1]

no it was a full copy...

 

[Gilles]

Then they messed up. You should get a restore disk when you purchase a computer.

 

[Eleandor]

You sure you don't have a recovery hard drive?

 

[Draknyte1]

yeah... im sure.... recoveries are normaly 40-80gig? and can sometimes be unaccessible... depending what brand pc u have....

I got one partition.... 193gig.... no recovery....

 

[Eleandor]

If you don't have CD's from office and your OS when you have bought the pc, you must have a recovery partition of about 5 gig that allows you to reset your computer to its retail defaults. Sometimes the partition is hidden (packard bell pc's, for example) but they have a tool installed that allows you to reset your computer. You can probably access it by going to start > Programs > Packard bell. I'm not on a bell pc atm, so I don't know the exact location. Other pc's might have something similar.

If you already formated your drives, you probably lost your recovery partition...

If you still can't find it, sue the one who sold the computer

 

[Drenith]

im getting office 07 off a friend... cause i really hate openoffice and windwos 7 also hates it

well i want to use office 2003... cause openoffice is a load of $#!t...

looks like you had a couple typos in those quotes, i believe you meant to say

im getting openoffice off http://openoffice.org... cause i really hate microsoft and windows 7 is vista after kemo, some of the cancer is gone but its still got a long road to recovery ahead of it, plus they discovered that it has aids...
well i want to use openoffice ... cause windows is a load of $#!t...

 

[Draknyte1]

lol..... i wanted to use office 03 when i started this thread but i got 07 soon afterwards..,.. not a typo.... and openoffice is shit...