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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed?
What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has
already been installed? In the olden days, we used COA and then COA32, but it doesn't seem to exist for Windows 10. Searching I didn't find a good app that moves installed hierarchies to where they belong (keeping in mind myriad associated registry entries occur during installation). So I moved it manually, fixed the registry keys, and set it as the default. The app in question is the "Epic Privacy Browser": https://cdn.epicbrowser.com/epicsetup.exe Whose canonical installer has two flaws I had to overcome: a. The canonical site does not provide a full offline installer, and, b. Epic *always* installs into the %LOCALAPPDATA% hierarchy. It's clear that: a. I want a full offline installer for my software archives, and, b. I want to install the Epic browser where I think it belongs, and, c. I want to set Epic as the default web browser. I solved all those problems (including the associated registry changes) and wrote up a step-by-step tutorial for others to benefit from the effort, where I only ask here if there is a better way to move an installed app's location than manually. In this case, the goal is to move the installed Epic Privacy Browser: FROM: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Epic Privacy Browser\Application\epic.exe TO: C:\app\browser\epic Taking into account the myriad associated registry changes that occur so that the app works properly, and so that the app can be set as the default Windows 10 web browser. As I noted, I already solved these problems, but I did the work manually. Hence I only ask here what's the best way to move an already-installed app and associated registry entries, so that it works properly and can be assigned to the Windows 10 web-browser default? -- Please do not respond if you don't know how to move already installed apps. (If there are 0 responses - that's OK - it just means nobody knows how.) |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed?
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 12:04:34 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder
wrote: What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed? See if this does what you need: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-take-advantage-of-symbolic-links-in-window-10/ |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed?
Arlen,
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:07:29 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: Not in this, the XP newsgroup. 1) why did you chose to add the XP newsgroup to it ? {1} 2) why didn't you add that reason to the top of your reply ? 3) Where is the reference to the origional/initial messages newsgroup (and, in case you changed the subjectline, it too)? {1} The differences between W10 and XP are big, and answers for the former might well not work for the latter, and vice-verse. By accepting suggestions for both in a single thread you are just making your work much harder, and in turn ours too. I don't ask questions that are easy to solve. Only experts can answer my questions. In this case you are asking a question thats impossible to solve, and you know it. Tell me, what is the _standard method_ used by *all* sofware to refer to their installation/data/other directories as well as any other configuration files/data, and where do *all* software store that info ? Or, in the reverse: Can you imagine/do you know of the existance of a piece of software that uses a "non-standard" way to handle the above references ? If the answer to either the first is "there is none" or the answer to the second "yes" than you will have to concede that your question is unanswerable. (no "one method fits all" available). I'm not an expert in any sense of the word, but the above looks like a no-brainer to me. :-) I get the strong feeling that your"expert" is just your way to refer to some mythological being which is supposed to bend this universums rules to give you what you want. And please, don't tell me you did not even consider the above non-existance of standarisation of the storage of such configuration data ... On the other hand, if you did you would not have asked your above question. :-) Regards, Rudy Wieser P.s. There are several programs available which sole purpose is to convert standard windows programs into portable ones. They sometimes work, and sometimes don't. Often they come with a "will work on" program list. Take a wild guess why. |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed?
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:38:22 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder
wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:07:29 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: See if this does what you need: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-take-advantage-of-symbolic-links-in-window-10/ Hi Char Jackson, You're still having trouble with your chit-chat model. I don't ask questions that are easy to solve. Only experts can answer my questions. *blush* Flattery now? Anyway, you're welcome. I'm glad to have found a solution that was both easy and obvious. |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed?
?? Good Guy ??,
Because he wrongly believes that he has a better chance of finding young boys in that group!!!!!!! Trolling is one thing. Accusing someone of being/doing something which can, especially in the current climate regarding it, cause someone to get in trouble with the authorities is something quite different. As in, not funny at all. He keeps changing his nym and he is using OpenVPN to circumvent any "intrusion" by the authorities. There are other reasons to do that, with one of them what he explained to us, being that he does not want to be(come) a number on some data aggregator-and-sellers lists. You might think that that is rather overdone and therefore not believe it, but do you have any *proof* that that isn't the reason (and ofcourse proof that yours is the real other one) ? If not ... However, he is mistaken. The authorities have better tools to snare him. Yes, I heard those stories too. But as they are not known for telling us anything about them all we, and you, can do is guess. So, although I can understand that you do not like Arlen (or whatever his real name is), you still should not be making wild accusations. They might even come back to bite you in the butt (slander and such - maybe even one of those new online revenge this-and-that laws). Regards, Rudy Wieser "?? Good Guy ??" wrote in message news On 30/06/2018 09:55, R.Wieser wrote: Not in this, the XP newsgroup. 1) why did you chose to add the XP newsgroup to it ? {1} Because he wrongly believes that he has a better chance of finding young boys in that group!!!!!!! He is a known pedo and the authorities are watching him. He keeps changing his nym and he is using OpenVPN to circumvent any "intrusion" by the authorities. However, he is mistaken. The authorities have better tools to snare him. /--- This email has been checked for viruses by Windows Defender software. //https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/ -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after ithas already been installed?
On 30/06/2018 19:52, R.Wieser wrote:
Accusing someone of being/doing something which can, especially in the current climate regarding it, cause someone to get in trouble with the authorities is something quite different. I posted that so that other pedos like yourself can come out of the closet and surprisingly it worked!!. You guys are running a racket of abusing young boys and sooner the authorities come after you lot the better it would be for the innocent kids. -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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R.Wieser wrote:
?? Good Guy ??, [...] He keeps changing his nym and he is using OpenVPN to circumvent any "intrusion" by the authorities. There are other reasons to do that, with one of them what he explained to us, being that he does not want to be(come) a number on some data aggregator-and-sellers lists. It has been mentioned many times that 1) there is no indication - let alone proof - that such 'aggregators' [1] actually exist and 2) that the very *way* he fakes/forges his headers makes it *trivial* for such 'aggregators' to pinpoint his postings. But he refuses to accept reality/facts and continues his paranoia. [1] Of course there are address-harvesters, but they only harvest email addresses and then mainly only from the From: header (because that's in the [X]OVER data. I.e that's not what our resident nymshifter (aka Mr. EMAK) is talking about. |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, afterit has already been installed?
On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:52:45 +0200, R.Wieser, thunk thusly:
?? Good Guy ??, Because he wrongly believes that he has a better chance of finding young boys in that group!!!!!!! Trolling is one thing. Accusing someone of being/doing something which can, especially in the current climate regarding it, cause someone to get in trouble with the authorities is something quite different. As in, not funny at all. He keeps changing his nym and he is using OpenVPN to circumvent any "intrusion" by the authorities. There are other reasons to do that, with one of them what he explained to us, being that he does not want to be(come) a number on some data aggregator-and-sellers lists. You might think that that is rather overdone and therefore not believe it, but do you have any *proof* that that isn't the reason (and ofcourse proof that yours is the real other one) ? If not ... However, he is mistaken. The authorities have better tools to snare him. Yes, I heard those stories too. But as they are not known for telling us anything about them all we, and you, can do is guess. So, although I can understand that you do not like Arlen (or whatever his real name is), you still should not be making wild accusations. They might even come back to bite you in the butt (slander and such - maybe even one of those new online revenge this-and-that laws). Get the **** out of here. He's a little bitch, and I bet that name disappears shortly. He's baiting people, and is getting more bait than it likes. You dolts must be new to usenet. -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. 940 million have no idea what they're using -- Brick Mortar |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed?
?? Good Guy ??,
I posted that so that other pedos like yourself can come out of the closet and surprisingly it worked!!. :-) Try again. You post something - blackballing someone else - addressed to me, and you crow some kind of victory because I wrote a response to you ? Really ? You really stink at trolling. Goodbye. Regards, Rudy Wieser |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed?
Frank Slootweg,
It has been mentioned many times that 1) there is no indication - let alone proof - that such 'aggregators' [1] actually exist .... [1] Of course there are address-harvesters, but they only harvest email addresses How many of those companies which actually do some sort of usenet scraping have you visited ? If none, how do you know that nothing of the sort Arlen is afraid of happens ? (yes, I know that its rather blunt.. My apologies) I.e that's not what our resident nymshifter (aka Mr. EMAK) is talking about. Nope. He seems to be afraid that all of his posts will be aggregated, and anything in them, even when posted many years ago, could be used against him at some future point. The "normal" us ignore that possibility, because we all think that there is no reason for anyone to put a searchbeam on us. Who are we anyway that anyone would feel the need to put us under it ? But thats not the point. Just as with being afraid of spiders will not stop even though you know that in your nick of the world there are absolutily no spiders that can harm you, knowing that the chance that that spotlight will single you out is smaller than winning a 5mil jackpot, the nagging(? or just full-blown?) fear will never subside. 2) that the very *way* he fakes/forges his headers makes it *trivial* for such 'aggregators' to pinpoint his postings. Could you show how thats done ? I would certainly like to know how I can match a new nym to an already existing one. The last time I tried to compare the headers of two messages that way I could not find anything even remotely matching. But there is the question why someone would need to fake/forge headers, as you can use different newsgroup hosts. There seem to be a number around for which only need to register (no credentials checked, just that the provided email address exists - even for just a few minutes)... Regards, Rudy Wieser |
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Frank,
As chances will have it, it only popped into my mind after I'd shut-down my 'puter to go sleep: It has been mentioned many times that 1) there is no indication - let alone proof - that such 'aggregators' [1] actually exist It has been staring us in the face: What about gmail ? That certainly is an aggregation of email messages, currently going back *at least* a decade. Just a few weeks ago someone posted a reply to a 13-year old message. To which someone else responded that the person posting that message had not been active in that newsgroup for over 7 years ... So, both proof of aggregation - gmail, duh - and that its easily searchable - the extraction of "not been active in 7 years" info. I don't know about you, but if I would be worried about stuff I said in the past at some time in the future possibly coming back to hound me than gmail would be a good candidate to fuel it. Regards, Rudy Wieser |
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"R.Wieser" wrote:
Arlen, Char Jackson wrote: Not in this, the XP newsgroup. 1) why did you chose to add the XP newsgroup to it ? Maybe because it's freaking crazy. Why did you include introductions without quoting any text? |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed?
R.Wieser wrote:
Frank Slootweg, It has been mentioned many times that 1) there is no indication - let alone proof - that such 'aggregators' [1] actually exist ... [1] Of course there are address-harvesters, but they only harvest email addresses How many of those companies which actually do some sort of usenet scraping have you visited ? If none, how do you know that nothing of the sort Arlen is afraid of happens ? (yes, I know that its rather blunt.. My apologies) Of course one can't prove a negative, but - as I said - there is no indication that these Usenet aggregators actually exist. For *other* media, such as Gmail which you mentioned in your other posts, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., such aggregators of course *do* exist, but we're talking about Usenet, not those other media. I.e that's not what our resident nymshifter (aka Mr. EMAK) is talking about. Nope. He seems to be afraid that all of his posts will be aggregated, and anything in them, even when posted many years ago, could be used against him at some future point. Not quite (AFAIK). He's afraid that his *identity* will be found out. Whether that found identity will be used against him is a subsequent concern, not his primary (AFAIK). The "normal" us ignore that possibility, because we all think that there is no reason for anyone to put a searchbeam on us. Who are we anyway that anyone would feel the need to put us under it ? But thats not the point. Just as with being afraid of spiders will not stop even though you know that in your nick of the world there are absolutily no spiders that can harm you, knowing that the chance that that spotlight will single you out is smaller than winning a 5mil jackpot, the nagging(? or just full-blown?) fear will never subside. 2) that the very *way* he fakes/forges his headers makes it *trivial* for such 'aggregators' to pinpoint his postings. Could you show how thats done ? I would certainly like to know how I can match a new nym to an already existing one. The last time I tried to compare the headers of two messages that way I could not find anything even remotely matching. Sorry, I can't post that info, because then also he will know how's it's done, while he claims it cannot be done and attacks anyone (i.e. me) who says otherwise. I've given him clue-by-fours many times, but he's just too clue-resistant and convinced that he can't be wrong. Yet another of his traits. But there is the question why someone would need to fake/forge headers, as you can use different newsgroup hosts. There seem to be a number around for which only need to register (no credentials checked, just that the provided email address exists - even for just a few minutes)... He already uses multiple NSPs (News SPs), but he wants to go beyond that and fakes/forges other headers (which he knows how to fake/forge). N.B. Of late he doesn't switch his nyms and his NSPs as often as he did, but he has used many tens of different nyms and several different NSPs. |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed?
John Doe,
Why did you include introductions without quoting any text? I didn't. I quoted that itroduction line because its indicates the post being a reply to someone, but without that someones post anywhere in view (in this, the XP newsgroup). As I thought I made clear in the three points I wrote below it. I also did quote "any text" (de two lines directly below the quoted "introductions" line), just below the above - as a start for my response to the actual content. 1) why did you chose to add the XP newsgroup to it ? Maybe because it's freaking crazy. Maybe. But I do not wish to jump to conclusions (and especially not ones like that). Maybe he has a good reason for it, and I'm (we are) the one(s) just not seeing it ... Regards, Rudy Wieser Regards, Rudy Wieser |
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What's the best way to MOVE an app to where it belongs, after it has already been installed?
Frank,
Of course one can't prove a negative Quite. But you still seem to want to deny the possibility of the existance of a positive - and even though you seem to concede that it happens for other kinds of web-based communications. but - as I said - there is no indication that these Usenet aggregators actually exist. So, you deny the example I gave you ? Than I'm afraid we have, in this regard, nothing to talk about anymore. Sorry. And by the way, I did make a mistake. I referred to Googles usenet access with the name "gmail", where it should have been, as some googleing showed me, "google groups". Does that change anything for you(especially in regard to your "usenet aggregation does not exist!" stance) ? Not quite (AFAIK). He's afraid that his *identity* will be found out. How come you think so ? And how would that knowledge benefit or damage anyone ? Whether that found identity will be used against him is a subsequent concern, not his primary (AFAIK). I don't think so. Its the possibility of the latter which *causes* the wish to conceal the former. The latter simply does not exist without the former. Sorry, I can't post that info, because then also he will know how's it's done, Ofcourse. As your method of detection depends on him making mistakes, you don't want him to get privvy to the ones he (still) does make. In other words, its as good as looking at the way someone writes his messages (word usage, punctuation, etc.), and infer that two messages must have been from the same person. Bummer. I thought it was an exact science. Regards, Rudy Wieser |
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