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My old notebook died. I was able to salvage the harddrive and are able to access it from my new laptop's Linux Kubuntu 14.4. On the old notebook I had Windows installed as a secondary system (dual boot). Now I would like to know which programs I had installed on that old Windows. How am I able to find out? I checked

Documents and Settings/Make42/AppData/

but there is hardly anything there. It is possible though that I installed hardly anything, since it was my secondary system which I rarely used. As a matter of fact it is a while ago I booted it, so my memory is a little fuzzy on the details. So back to my question:

How am I able to find out which programs I installed on Windows?

I'm having this question regarding an old

  1. a Windows XP installation
  2. a Windows 7 installation

For finding out what is what this helped: How to identify the Windows version of a dead install from Linux by having access only to its filesystem?

My own summarizing answer is below.

Off-topic: Not sure what "recovery"-tag to use. Happy about correction.

Journeyman Geek
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Make42
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You can go into Drive:\Program Files and Drive:\Program Files (x86) These are the folders where windows usually saves it's programs. Just check in there and see if there's anything you need.

JCTechie
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In order to summarize what was posted:

Windows XP

  • Drive:/Documents and Settings/All Users/AppData
  • Drive:/Documents and Settings/$USER/AppData
  • Drive:/Programs

Also, with a remote registry editor open

  • \WINDOWS\system32\config\SOFTWARE (all users)
  • \Documents and Settings{user}\NTUSER.DAT

and look for

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Windows 7

Look in

  • Drive:/Program Files
  • Drive:/Program Files (x86)
  • Drive:/Users/$USER/AppData/Local/
  • Drive:/Users/$USER/AppData/Roaming/
Make42
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If you have Windows 7, just open the file explorer and in the left panel there should be "Devices" list. In that list should be some partitions. Just mount the one which contains Windows system (mine is literally called "System") and go into "Program files".

Alexiy
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