Personally, i found virtualizing the best way to get old installations running on new hardware, so i'd try turning the whole XP machine into a VM, and use VirtualBox, which is free, to run it on the Win7 machine. Everything that goes beyond this requires the ability to understand compiled code, and anyone who can do this well enough can write code as well, which doesn't exactly make them a software engineer, but comes close enough. This more or less exhausts the possibilities that you have without being a software engineer. If it doesn't work, compare the procmon output of the old and new machine to find which mistakes you might have made or which files might be missing. You could run it while you start your software, filter on your executable name, use it to find which files (probably all in the same directory) and registry keys it accesses, then copy these files and keys to the new machine. Could this be done for a program that has already been activated with a License key? I have looked it up online for a little bit now and saw that there are ways of getting the installation key to a software by creating a keygen, but that is while the software is installed using a free trial so that they could activate it. Although buying a new printer and software is an option (an expensive option), I would like to help the school save money. The company that the school originally bought the products from no longer has this software and has discontinued the ID printer that we have. We are wanting to upgrade to another computer we have that is running Win7, but we do not have the CD for the software nor do we have the installation key. I work for a school that is running an old program and ID printing machine connected to a WinXP machine. I want to start off by apologizing because I am not a software engineer so it is quite possible that what I ask cannot be done, I looked up the wrong thing, or I just don't understand what I am talking about.
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