In the process of transferring all my local development junk from my old machine to the new one. I haven't bothered to download/install XAMPP on the new one, however I copied over my c:\xampp folder from my old machine and pasted it onto the new machine and it appears that everything is working correctly.
Are there components that only work when the installer is used to properly install XAMPP on a machine? Or is it fine to just copy over the folder without needing to actually formally install anything?