To do it the way you want, I think you'll have the best luck hooking up that hard drive as a secondary drive in a different machine, boot up the other machine and doing all of the moves that way.

Run a copy job and copy your Program Files directory to the new location. Then, change the registry key for it in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. The key is named "ProgramFilesDir".

You can, if you wish, display your favorite file or its shortcuts directly in the This PC folder on Windows 11/10/8 or the (My) Computer folder of Windows 7/Vista. In this post, we will guide you ...

Starting with Windows Vista, the 64-bit versions of Windows have two Program Files folders. The regular Program Files folder holds 64-bit applications, while "Program Files (x86)" is used for 32-bit ...

When you upgrade your current version of Windows to a newer version, the upgrade process will create backups of important directories from your previous version of Windows. These directories include ...

As the Program Files folder requires Administrator privilidges to access, it's more suitable for the program's binaries, rather than changing configurations and cache files. Moving the "Configuration" ...