My office components are missing in the start menue.

[sandyturley]

I have copied my hard drive and on the new one the components in my office
program file are missing, do I have to go to program files and search for
word or whatever i'm using and open it that way. How can I get all the
components back in the regular program file listing in the start menue?
Thanks for your help.

 

[Echo S]

If you copied your entire harddrive to a new harddrive, the programs would
be installed just as they were on the old drive. You would have basically
made an image of the drive -- it would include the operating system
(Windows) and all the installed programs.

If you just copied your Program Files or Office file folder(s) to a new hard
drive, then you haven't actually *installed* the programs, and they won't
run, nor will they show up in Program Files in the Start menu. When you
install a program like Office on your computer, it does more than just put a
folder full of files on your C:\ drive, so just copying the files does
nothing.

So. Please tell us exactly how you copied your hard drive. I hope you have
your Office installation disks, because I have a feeling you didn't really
copy your whole hard drive.

 

[sandyturley]

I copied the hard drive using the utility that came with it instead of using
bootit. In the file folder on the new drive has all of the files in the
Office 11 file it just hasn't put them in the program menue for some reason.
I have to double click on them in drive c: to open them. Or I can drag them
into the program file in start. And it won't let me uninstall the program
because it now sees it as a shared program since I have the other drive in
the computer too.
--
Today only comes around once, let''''s make the most of it!

If you copied your entire harddrive to a new harddrive, the programs would
be installed just as they were on the old drive. You would have basically
made an image of the drive -- it would include the operating system
(Windows) and all the installed programs.

If you just copied your Program Files or Office file folder(s) to a new hard
drive, then you haven't actually *installed* the programs, and they won't
run, nor will they show up in Program Files in the Start menu. When you
install a program like Office on your computer, it does more than just put a
folder full of files on your C:\ drive, so just copying the files does
nothing.

So. Please tell us exactly how you copied your hard drive. I hope you have
your Office installation disks, because I have a feeling you didn't really
copy your whole hard drive.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I have copied my hard drive and on the new one the components in my office
program file are missing, do I have to go to program files and search for
word or whatever i'm using and open it that way. How can I get all the
components back in the regular program file listing in the start menue?
Thanks for your help.

 

[Echo S]

It sounds to me as if you just need to create shortcuts to the program
files.

I'd probably do it this way -- right-click a program file and select Pin to
Start Menu. Then I'd click Start, and click and drag the name of the program
to All Programs. Hover there for a few seconds, and the programs menu should
open up. Then you can move your mouse over and drop the shortcut on the
programs menu.

When you're finished, click Start again, right-click the program name at the
top of the Start menu, and select "remove from this list" or "delete" or
"unpin from Start menu" or whatever the option is.

There are other ways to create and add shortcuts to the All Programs menu,
but it's hard to give specific instrux without knowing your file structure
setup.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I copied the hard drive using the utility that came with it instead of using
bootit. In the file folder on the new drive has all of the files in the
Office 11 file it just hasn't put them in the program menue for some reason.
I have to double click on them in drive c: to open them. Or I can drag them
into the program file in start. And it won't let me uninstall the program
because it now sees it as a shared program since I have the other drive in
the computer too.
--
Today only comes around once, let''''s make the most of it!

If you copied your entire harddrive to a new harddrive, the programs would
be installed just as they were on the old drive. You would have basically
made an image of the drive -- it would include the operating system
(Windows) and all the installed programs.

If you just copied your Program Files or Office file folder(s) to a new hard
drive, then you haven't actually *installed* the programs, and they won't
run, nor will they show up in Program Files in the Start menu. When you
install a program like Office on your computer, it does more than just put a
folder full of files on your C:\ drive, so just copying the files does
nothing.

So. Please tell us exactly how you copied your hard drive. I hope you have
your Office installation disks, because I have a feeling you didn't really
copy your whole hard drive.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I have copied my hard drive and on the new one the components in my office
program file are missing, do I have to go to program files and search for
word or whatever i'm using and open it that way. How can I get all the
components back in the regular program file listing in the start menue?
Thanks for your help.