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WinAppMigrator
Turn an installed Windows app into an installer for a new PC
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Turn an installed Windows app into an installer for a new PC
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Pick an installed Windows app, on this PC or on a drive pulled from one that won't boot, and get one self-extracting installer for the new PC: program files, registry, services and runtimes. You can choose to migrate its license too. Free and MIT-licensed.
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Hi Product Hunt! WinAppMigrator is a free, open-source (MIT) Windows tool. You pick an installed app, on this PC or on a drive pulled out of one that won't boot, and it builds one self-extracting installer you run on the other machine. It works backward from what's installed, so it helps when the original installer or the vendor is gone.
What goes in: program files, the app's registry keys, services and drivers it owns, scheduled tasks, shortcuts, file types, COM classes, firewall rules, and the Visual C++ and .NET runtimes it needs, embedded so they install offline. You can choose to migrate its license too: it flags anything that looks tied to the old machine, and it never decrypts license data or bypasses activation.
Before you build, it shows what goes in and how big the installer can get. On the other PC, the installer lists every change first, checks its package's hashes, rolls back if the install fails, and uninstalls from Settings like any other app.
Limits, so nobody gets surprised: Microsoft Store apps aren't listed, the app's own updater may not know it moved, and if a drive is failing, image it first.
Which old app would you try it on first?
Launch-day update: 0.6 went out last night, and it reaches back to Windows 7.
If the old PC still starts, you don't pull its drive: run the small signed client on it (Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11, 32- or 64-bit), type the code it shows on the new PC, and build the installer over your network. Or pick a .vhd or .vhdx image of the old drive.
Apps from Windows 7, Vista, 8 and 8.1 land on Windows 10 or 11 with what was different there handled: 32-bit apps go to Program Files (x86), settings Windows kept in VirtualStore come along, and the DirectX 9 runtime installs with an app that needs it.
Tested by hand on Windows 7 SP1 VMs. Try an installer before you rely on it.