Re: External Drive

Of course, is should only work with the machine that an app is installed
from. Of course the program will not run when you remove the drive it
resides in. These are all given! What I am asking is other "side effects". I
am asking the experts out there if there are any other issues in installing
application into the external drive.

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:efIeV$0fFHA.3940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Some yes - some no.
>
> Even if yes, in general it will only work on the machine that performed
> the installation. It will not work on other machines (some older
> applications that do not write to the registry may work on other computers
> also).
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
>
> If you knew as much as you thought you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
> "Benedictum" <benedictum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ee5GG50fFHA.1048@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Can I install an application and run it from an external drive? If the
>> hard drive is removed is there unwanted side effects?
>>
>>
>
>


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