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I have a Sony Vaio all singing all dancing desktop pc. I have bought a fujitsu laptop. Unfortunately it comes with sod all on it. Is there any way I can transfer my programmes that came installed on Sony? I have paid extra for Office and Power point and PSE5 is on my sony. I dont have discs for them!:(
 
without the disks it wont be easy
if you have a licence which from what you say, you do, there should be no problem downloading the relevant software from one of any number of websites that provide files for download.
did your sony not come with recovery disks? they may restore the programs, but often it will only work on your sony..
which version office do you have?
 
I have Vista Home Premium. Office 2003 version 60. And no it didn't come with recovery discs - I had to make my own!!! You would think for 1400 quid they could provide recovery discs:(. So is there a way around all this PLEASE?:'(:'(:'(
 
The Office 2003 licence agreement allows you to install a 2nd copy on a portable device such as a laptop, at least mine says that. It might not be the same for your release as it was bundled with the Sony. Being able to install it on the laptop depends on how the recovery CDs are set up. It might be that you simply need to find the right folder and run setup or it might be completely automatic as part of the windows install or even refuse to run as the installer is restricted to the Sony desktop machine.

I think your best option would be to contact Sony's support team and ask them.
 
The recovery discs will be specific to your viao.
You should have a sticker somewhere, if you do not have the office discs, that will give you the serial / key code for the office suite.
Office 2003 has to be activated after within 30 days of installation to allow it to continue to work.
I cant find anywhere on the microsoft site, that allows you a download of the software.
If you defo have no discs, I would contact sony and ask for a set, as the microsoft license should allow you to use another copy on a portable device as long as both are not in use together. And how are you supposed to do that if they have not supplied the discs.

Hope my ramblings have helped any.
 
Just to throw a potential spanner in the works, the Sony licence for office would almost certainly be an OEM, which would mean it would have a different licence to a full paid for copy. I doubt very much that this licence would allow you to use it on a second computer.

When you paid extra for the software for the Sony, did they give you a reason for not supplying the disks, or was this done direct through Sony?
 
if you try sony support you might want to think about saying something along the lines of everything works fine, you have loads of personal data on there, but no office programs load - so how can you reinstall office withour reinstalling the whole machine (as you dont want to backup all your data or risk losing anything)
it may be your recovery disk will allow you to install office and do nothing else, it may be they will feel kind and send you the required media - you WILL need a licence key though to install legally onto another machine.
i doubt you can download from microsoft - they want to sell you everything
you *may* be able to download from an alternative source or persuade sony to provide you with the media
 
elwoodsusanm said:
I have a Sony Vaio all singing all dancing desktop pc. I have bought a fujitsu laptop. Unfortunately it comes with sod all on it. Is there any way I can transfer my programmes that came installed on Sony? I have paid extra for Office and Power point and PSE5 is on my sony. I dont have discs for them!:(
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Shame you haven't got Macs. You would have needed only a FireWire cable and the Macs would have transferred ALL your files and installed apps over to the new machine while you get a cup of coffee. No fiddling neccessary.
 
there are several ways you could do this some less legal than others so I cannot advise that obviously but one simple way would be to ghost the entire bootable image of your PC hard drive onto to your laptop hard drive. You would need reinstall the Fujitsu drivers but if you didn't get an install disk with the laptop then you can download them from the web. You wlll need to change various settings but nothing difficult.
Warning if you do this you will be unable to use your Fujitsu restore disks because you will have wiped the fujitsu partition required but every program and file on your PC will be on the laptop exactly the same
 
i thought they were legally bound to supply disc's with new computers, i would check your supplier after having payed 1400 spondoolies and got nothing in return.
 
I, too, think it was an OEM version of MS Office and in that case, it's bound to the hardware you bought it with. Transferring it to another computer (desktop, laptop, whatever) isn't really within the legal terms afaik.

You can always try OpenOffice.org or purchase a boxed copy :)
If you have a daughter who attends a school of some sort, you might want to buy a student and teacher edition for her, I think you should be able to use it legally too for anything non-commercial.
 
i didnt think OEM was legally bound to the machine it came with, just that the OEM supplier is responsible for any support or maintenance from that equipment.
as for disks, media isnt often supplied with pre-installed software these days, although i would expect some utility to make your own, which could possibly be a complete disk image which is most likely bound to the make and model you bought.
i still think if you have a licence key, possibly stuck to the base of the laptop on an official hologrammed Microsoft sticker you can install that software within licence terms on any machine - as stated above you can usually install on 2 machines as long as not using both at same time.
if you are in a real bind, i could probably get you a copy of the media, its useless without a legal key though
 
Software licencing is a bizzare system, basically everyone has their own set of rules and some even have many different types depending on what licence you buy (i.e. how much you spend). Basically software developers can set their own terms - just as photographers do when they licence the reproduction of their photographs. We have 1 peice of software at work that is licenced not on number of PC's it is installed on but on the number of users that have log-ins to that software; so even if you only use the software 1x a year you still have to have a licence costing €1200 :eek:

The only way to really know is to read the licence terms that came with the software. :rules: Believe me this is a nightmare for businesses, especially big ones as they get audited by FAST (federation against software theft) fo compliance.

But as others have said - if this is an Microsoft OEM version of the software then you can only legally install on the PC that you bought it with - no transfers or multiple installs allowed.

However, if you did have the standard OEM discs it would install on the other PC and the Key Code you have for the old PC would would activate (provided that you haven't activated that code in the last 6 months - Microsoft only store activation data for 6 months). However, doing so would be against your licence :nono: and therefore technically theft - so don't do this.

As suggested have you tried OpenOffice it is free and suprisingly similar to MS office. It is also fully compatible with the MS office file types and you can even set it to save in the MS Office formats by default.
 
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