Tips & Tricks: How to copy and move Bopup IM clients to another location with no setup

This article explains and answers to the question:

Are the instant messengers, both Bopup Messenger and Bopup Observer, portable IM software?

We agree that we did not explain and throw light on this question before. We forget to say that our client-side messengers are portable software so you can copy and move Bopup Messenger and Bopup Observer applications to another folder on a hard drive, shared network location, USB flash drive or move the software to another computer/workstation and get the messengers working with no any setup and configuration.

In order to do this you need to copy/move all the files/directories from installation folder of the instant messenger. First, find and locate the installation directory of the program.

By default Bopup Messenger has it's installation folder located at <DRIVE>\Program Files\Bopup Messenger and for Bopup Observer that folder can be found at <DRIVE>\Program Files\Bopup Observer

A list of files and directories in installation folder of Bopup Messenger:
Resources\ (folder)
Bopup.chm
bopup.exe
bopup.exe.manifest
Contacts.txt
CSClient.dll
CSClient.X.manifest
History.dll
History.X.manifest
IdleHook.dll
incoming.wav
Readme.txt
Resources
SecPrvdr.dll
SecPrvdr.X.manifest
Transfer.dll
Transfer.X.manifest
typedsnd.wav

Copy all entries of that directory or that folder in full to any other location on a local, remote computer or a flash drive. Run the executable file (bopup.exe or observer.exe) to launch the instant messaging application.

Please note that all settings and options stored in system registry and installed via the setup.ini file including downloaded branding logo will be lost if you move the messenger to another computer. If you just move the messenger to another folder on the same computer and run it under the same Windows user account then all the settings are saved and restored.