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    <p>It sounds like you laboring under the delusion that you can simply copy a directory from Program Files on one machines, into the Program Files on a new machine, and it should Just Work.</p> <p>Most Mac software works that way, and it would be nice if all software worked that way. Alas, Windows installers often install various files in a variety of locations, put critical information into Windows Registry entries, and have other registration and anti-piracy mechanisms such that the program does not work on the new machine.</p> <p>See "<a href="https://superuser.com/questions/129087/is-it-possible-to-clone-only-the-software-on-a-machine">Is it possible to clone only the software on a machine?</a>", "<a href="https://superuser.com/questions/228575/copy-all-installed-programs-files-in-a-hard-disk-which-has-32-bit-windows-7-a">Copy all installed programs &amp; files in a hard disk (which has 32 bit Windows 7) and clone/transfer it to another computer which has 64 bit Windows 7</a>", "<a href="https://superuser.com/questions/325313/is-there-a-way-to-clone-an-ntfs-hard-drive-but-leave-some-files-out">Is there a way to clone an NTFS hard drive but leave some files out?</a>", etc.</p> <p>If you somehow know for a fact that your particular application does not have those external dependencies and will work just fine on the new machine after copying only the folder, then perhaps you could:</p> <ul> <li>make a "golden master" version of that application (perhaps in a self-extracting executable file) on your file server or on a CD or both, and use that master version to install on all new computers. This approach guarantees that the "golden master" is free from viruses that were created after the "golden master" was created.</li> </ul> <p>Or</p> <ul> <li>Since you already know the name of your particular application's folder, as mtijn suggested, make a batchfile that calls an archiver with that name and the appropriate command-line arguments to compress it into a self-extracting executable. Put the batch file and the archiver program on a USB stick; perhaps make the batch program autorun. There are a variety of archivers that would be more than adequate -- any one of winrar, <a href="http://upx.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">UPX</a>, WinZip, 7-zip, IExpress, or any other convenient archiver that supports <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-extracting_archive" rel="nofollow noreferrer">self-extracting archives</a>.</li> </ul>
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