How to migrate VF between computers?

[WSinc]

I am retiring a Windows 98 computer over to a new XP computer, and moved all my Visual Studio files to the new computer, including the VF version 6.5. I kept the identical directory structure. However, when I try to compile a source file, it says "cannot launch DF.EXE"
Was there another set of files I was supposed to migrate over to the new computer?

Or do I have to reinstall the VF from scratch? I have ordered the 6.6A upgrade, but thought I first would have migrate the 6.5 version.

[Intel_C_Intel]

My guess is that your TEMP path setting in your environment is too long. When we install CVF on Windows 2000 machines we have to adjust this before doing a build. It usually is c:Documents and Settings.... and we change it to c:winnt emp or c: emp.

[WSinc]

Are you saying that I can't put it in the usual Visual Studio hierarchy? On the old computer, it was under Programs/Microsoft Visual Studio/ common / etc.

I would not like to sacrifice that unless absolutely necessary, since it can cause problems elsewhere.

[Jugoslav_Dujic]

I'd really recommend rerunning setup -- it does all you need to do. Manual copying definitely won't work. Probably exporting & importing registry keys from Regedit
[both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] /Software/Microsoft/DevStudio/6.0 would work provided you keep directory structure identical. However, if VS crashes on the new machind during startup after that, remove these keys and run setup.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

You MUST do an install - you cannot simply move files. There is too much registry customization and other things going on at install to make a simple file copying work.

Steve