How can Windows recognize program install files moved from Desktop to

Try3 said:

x509,

Thanks to Callender's clarification, I conclude that the 'installation location' you originally had [your Desktop] was merely where you chose to extract that portable app so,

Just for the record, this old program did not offer a choice for installation location.

when you moved it somewhere else, all you needed to do was make a shortcut to its new location.
As a portable app, you would not actually have installed it but many portable apps do ask where to extract the installation file using the word 'install' instead. So that explains why you thought it had been installed.

Sounds right.

As a portable app, it would only have made a shortcut in the Start menu if you had agreed to that option when extracting it. [Unless, of course, they had cut corners in the beta version by not asking you anything about it.]

Which is probably what happened.

The reason I keep using the word extract is that a portable app might be downloaded as an exe file but it is actually a self-extracting archive i.e. a zip file with an added automatic element to it so it extracts when you "run2 the exe.

My explanation is not an encouragement to keep the damn thing. Ditch it and use the full MWB application for rootkit checks. The full MWB application is the thing they keep updated.

I think we are in violent agreement about not using that old beta software.

All the best,
Denis

FYI: I see this if I launch the installer. You can choose where to extract and it is portable. I'd say that you don't need it anyway.