Copying programs from laptop tp external hard drive

I apologise if this is an inane question, but it's driving me mad!!!
I have recently acquired an external hard drive with the intention of transfering my vast collection of music on to it. I want to transfer Windows Media player to it as well. I have had no problem in moving My Music file to the external drive. However, I cannot seem to copy the whole progam of Windows Media Player on to it, only a shortcut button. I want to ensure that all my music is stored on the external hard drive and in order to play it I think I need the windows media player or simialr on there to. Is this correct? if it is how do I do it???

Thank you

You only need to move your music files onto the external drive.

You cant move media player as it is part of windows, if you have a library of music in media player then at the moment it will have its location stored as the original place that your files are, if you then move the files you will have to recreate the library and point it to the new storage area (your external drive).

Regards

Windows Media Player (WMP) is a program which is included with Windows. In fact, whatever music player you use, it must be installed on Windows to run. What you can do, if you want, is copy the installation program for WinAmp or some 3rd party music player to your external harddrive. As for WMP, it's included with Windows so you don't need to save it.