Installing programs on windows 7? -

I have 2 hard drives with Vista on the first, and just recently, Windows 7 on the second. I have all of my programs installed on the first hard drive, and I need to be able to run them while using Windows 7. How do I install a program such as Itunes again without downloading it or copying all of the files over?

If the program is portable, just run it from the first drive. If it s not, you ll have to install it under Windows 7. (Which drive it s on doesn t matter - whether it was installed when Windows 7 was running does.)

Any program you want to use in Win7 will definitely have to be installed in that environment. You can t simply tell it to use the program that was installed in Vista. You won t have to copy all your music over - you can have itunes look in the same directory that the songs are already in. If it s a case where Win7 doesn t recognize your Vista partition, here s a link to a thread that tells you how to fix that.

You MIGHT be able to create a shortcut to the program on the second hard drive, This is possible on Externals but I m not sure about internals. Otherwise, you would have to re-download and install them on the second.