Vista - Transfer of programs

I have just installed RC2 in a second partition. I ran the Vista migration
wizard and transferred settings from my XP installation.

This worked fine and all the icons in the quick launch bar were transferred.
To my great surprise, when I clicked on them the programs ran OK. I had not
reinstalled these programs on Vista and there is no sign of them in the
Programs folder in Vista.

Is this a minor miracle or has MS not told me about this feature!

Almendros,

All that is happening is Windows is putting a new shortcut pointing back to
the executable.


Bill F.

"Almendros" <Almendros@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6CF54A99-8B70-47C9-B3FB-39386AF5E05D@microsoft.com...
>I have just installed RC2 in a second partition. I ran the Vista migration
> wizard and transferred settings from my XP installation.
>
> This worked fine and all the icons in the quick launch bar were
> transferred.
> To my great surprise, when I clicked on them the programs ran OK. I had
> not
> reinstalled these programs on Vista and there is no sign of them in the
> Programs folder in Vista.
>
> Is this a minor miracle or has MS not told me about this feature!

Thanks Bill.

What I dont understand is how it can run a program that has not been
installed under Vista.

Not all programs seem to "transfer" like this but Picasa, Firefox and Skype
did. They run fine and there is no reference to them in Vista's program list.
Picasa now has two complete indexes, one on Vista and one on Xp.

"Bill Frisbee" wrote:

> Almendros,
>
> All that is happening is Windows is putting a new shortcut pointing back to
> the executable.
>
>
> Bill F.
>
> "Almendros" <Almendros@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6CF54A99-8B70-47C9-B3FB-39386AF5E05D@microsoft.com...
> >I have just installed RC2 in a second partition. I ran the Vista migration
> > wizard and transferred settings from my XP installation.
> >
> > This worked fine and all the icons in the quick launch bar were
> > transferred.
> > To my great surprise, when I clicked on them the programs ran OK. I had
> > not
> > reinstalled these programs on Vista and there is no sign of them in the
> > Programs folder in Vista.
> >
> > Is this a minor miracle or has MS not told me about this feature!
>