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davidh
September 21st, 2008, 12:16 AM
I have old 16-bit MS Excel for Win3 but floppy dist. disks probably unreadable.

I think it should be possible to backup the Excel registry items and the EXE, DLL, etc. files in such a way as to relatively easily reinstall on another machine (e.g. after HD crash, etc.). Anybody have some good ideas?

DH

davidh
September 21st, 2008, 12:46 AM
I'd probably have to buy an external USB floppy drive anyway to install with floppies on my XP PC :(

DH

ndebord
September 21st, 2008, 10:09 PM
I have old 16-bit MS Excel for Win3 but floppy dist. disks probably unreadable.

I think it should be possible to backup the Excel registry items and the EXE, DLL, etc. files in such a way as to relatively easily reinstall on another machine (e.g. after HD crash, etc.). Anybody have some good ideas?

DH

usb stick? This utility "says" it will reassign usb stick drives:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html