Posted: 1/21/2009 3:32:50 PM EDT
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I bought MS Street and Trips. I also have an Acer Aspire One. It has no dvd drive.
I would like to load Street and Trips onto a USB drive so I can run it on the Acer. On my desktop, I have XP pro. The Acer has XP home. Can anyone help me? Thanks |
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When you install the program it may ask you where to install it. Point it to the USB drive.
But you will run into a couple problems –– on the other system the icon in Programs won't be there so you have to find the executable on the USB drive to double click. And depending on how the application was written it may not work at all if the drive letter is different, or if it expects a bunch of registry settings to be in place. It would be easier to just install it on both machines. Most EULA's make provisions for using an app on a couple of machines as long as you are only using it on one at a time. |
Oh, now I see what you need, I missed the no DVD drive thing 
You should be able to copy the contents of the DVD onto a USB stick and install it on the Acer from the stick. Unless they are doing some copy protection that requires the DVD (I haven't seen that in years). |
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Admin Install for MS streets
I had to do this to get it on my Eee pc. |