Hi Rudi,

As Grant has commented, Guide _should_ be moveable and installable to
any folder on any drive. On the installation end, the only way I could
see getting into trouble would be if you did something such as try to
install into w:\abc\def when the w:\abc folder didn't already exist.
Not a likely thing to happen, but if you tried it, the install program
would fail.

Once installed, you should be able to move the entire Guide install
to any desired drive, or to a new machine.

Note that I say "should". I've done it, and I know several people have
done it... sounds as if you've run into a case where it didn't work.
Was it just on the installation end, or did you attempt to move or copy the
program and run into trouble?

Also, as Grant mentioned, the program stays away from the Windows
registry, so you should be okay on that front.

-- Bill

On 08/06/2015 03:57 PM, Rudi Jung chasseurdesgalaxies@... [guide-user] wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have Guide 8/9 running on WIN 98SE, on an old MACbook Pro (via WINE) and on WIN 7.
> Just to confirm what Bill said, I think it is good to remember that Guide (whatever version, I have Guide since version 6) ALWAYS requires to be installed in the C:\ root directory).
>
> If you transfer Guide to another place, for instance to C:\Program Files(x86)\Guide9\guide9.exe, there is a very nice and rather old program (dating from the WIN 98 times), which is very easy to use and transfers all the references in the Registry to the new place. (Also works on WIN 7(64 bits), but only when the extracted CoA 2 folder is copied over from WIN 98SE, NOT when directly trying to install directly (!!) on WIN 7.
> It is called CoA 2 (change of address) and once was freeware distributed by PC Magazine; but it is not free anymore; see:
> /http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,21065,00.asp
> /
> However you can still find the freeware version on an Italian site: /http://digilander.libero.it/rareware/coa2.zip/
>
> Good luck !
>
> Rudi
>
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> *From:* "Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> *To:* guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Monday, August 3, 2015 4:11 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [guide-user] Update posted
>
> Hi Clay, Joaquin,
>
> On 08/02/2015 03:19 PM, 'P. Clay Sherrod' drclay@... [guide-user] wrote:
> > So we had a reported "bug" that resulted in the program crash when installed.
>
> Actually, it's a little weirder than that. The error is that "Windows
> does not have access to the device, specified path or destination",
> c:\guide9\guide9.exe. It doesn't say _why_ you don't have access. Perhaps
> the file doesn't exist. Or perhaps it is accessible only by an administrator
> account, not a user account. Or maybe the file _does_ exist, but in
> some other folder.
>
> So in this case, I would investigate:
>
> Does the file 'guide9.exe' actually exist in the c:\guide9 folder? (If
> not, search the hard drive to see if Guide is actually installed in some
> other folder.)
>
> Can you run Guide if you are an administrator?
>
> -- Bill
>
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