MS Office on USB drive

H

Hal.Stull

I travel from customer to customer and would like to carry my office suite
with me. I have a large capacity, pocket size USB drive that I carry files,
presentations, databases, etc. I cannot always use my laptop at a sight for
security reasons, but need to work projects at multiple sites with different
OS (2000, 98, ME, XP) and different versions of Office. Is there some way to
install Office 2003 on this drive or could MS create an entire package:
Office, drive, installing drivers, etc that would allow the software and
files to be completely portable?

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C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

USB devices are not designed to run programs.
They were designed for file storage only.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| I travel from customer to customer and would like to carry my office suite
| with me. I have a large capacity, pocket size USB drive that I carry files,
| presentations, databases, etc. I cannot always use my laptop at a sight for
| security reasons, but need to work projects at multiple sites with different
| OS (2000, 98, ME, XP) and different versions of Office. Is there some way to
| install Office 2003 on this drive or could MS create an entire package:
| Office, drive, installing drivers, etc that would allow the software and
| files to be completely portable?
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

No, some files are required to be written to the Windows folder and many
entries are required within the Registry.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Hal.Stull asked:

| I travel from customer to customer and would like to carry my office
| suite with me. I have a large capacity, pocket size USB drive that I
| carry files, presentations, databases, etc. I cannot always use my
| laptop at a sight for security reasons, but need to work projects at
| multiple sites with different OS (2000, 98, ME, XP) and different
| versions of Office. Is there some way to install Office 2003 on this
| drive or could MS create an entire package: Office, drive, installing
| drivers, etc that would allow the software and files to be completely
| portable?
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-788fc4bf1461&dg=microsoft.public.office.misc
 
H

Harlan Grove

Hal.Stull wrote...
I travel from customer to customer and would like to carry my office suite
with me. I have a large capacity, pocket size USB drive that I carry files,
presentations, databases, etc. I cannot always use my laptop at a sight for
security reasons, but need to work projects at multiple sites with different
OS (2000, 98, ME, XP) and different versions of Office. Is there some way to
install Office 2003 on this drive or could MS create an entire package:
Office, drive, installing drivers, etc that would allow the software and
files to be completely portable?
Click to expand...
....

If you can't use your own laptop at some sites, you're using customers'
PCs?
If your customers always have some version of Office, then plan on it
being
Office 97, design your presentations accordingly, and use their Office
software with your files.

If you have some customers without Office, what makes you think they'd
want
you to install Office on their hardware? (Unless they'd like a free,
pirated
version, that is.)

If security is such a concern, who'd let you walk around with a USB
drive much
less give you access to any other hardware?
 
H

Hal.Stull

Security on customer LANs is not a concern, but an impediment. Under 98 and
ME there were programs that would reconfigure my machine for various login
schemes. XP doesn't work with these programs. I do use customer machines, but
cannot guarantee that the one I am given has Office 97 or has the
professional suite.
But these are my business problems. What I want to know is how to make this
technical solution work, if it can. Is it legal? Milly's comments about the
registry and windows folders are helpful.
What goes in the registry? What critical things are in the Windows folder.
Has anyone else tried this? Am I in the right discussion group?
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Yes, people have tried it and it failed miserably. If you really want a
potential solution that is OS/Office independent, try a PDA with a Margi
presenter for displaying PowerPoint or other video.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Hal.Stull asked:

| Security on customer LANs is not a concern, but an impediment. Under
| 98 and ME there were programs that would reconfigure my machine for
| various login schemes. XP doesn't work with these programs. I do use
| customer machines, but cannot guarantee that the one I am given has
| Office 97 or has the professional suite.
| But these are my business problems. What I want to know is how to
| make this technical solution work, if it can. Is it legal? Milly's
| comments about the registry and windows folders are helpful.
| What goes in the registry? What critical things are in the Windows
| folder. Has anyone else tried this? Am I in the right discussion
| group?
|
|
|
|
| "Harlan Grove" wrote:
|
|| Hal.Stull wrote...
||| I travel from customer to customer and would like to carry my
||| office suite with me. I have a large capacity, pocket size USB
||| drive that I carry files, presentations, databases, etc. I cannot
||| always use my laptop at a sight for security reasons, but need to
||| work projects at multiple sites with different OS (2000, 98, ME,
||| XP) and different versions of Office. Is there some way to install
||| Office 2003 on this drive or could MS create an entire package:
||| Office, drive, installing drivers, etc that would allow the
||| software and files to be completely portable?
|| ....
||
|| If you can't use your own laptop at some sites, you're using
|| customers' PCs?
|| If your customers always have some version of Office, then plan on it
|| being
|| Office 97, design your presentations accordingly, and use their
|| Office software with your files.
||
|| If you have some customers without Office, what makes you think
|| they'd want
|| you to install Office on their hardware? (Unless they'd like a free,
|| pirated
|| version, that is.)
||
|| If security is such a concern, who'd let you walk around with a USB
|| drive much
|| less give you access to any other hardware?
 
T

The Big Dish Man

Milly Staples said:
Yes, people have tried it and it failed miserably. If you really want a
potential solution that is OS/Office independent, try a PDA with a Margi
presenter for displaying PowerPoint or other video.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Hal.Stull asked:

| Security on customer LANs is not a concern, but an impediment. Under
| 98 and ME there were programs that would reconfigure my machine for
| various login schemes. XP doesn't work with these programs. I do use
| customer machines, but cannot guarantee that the one I am given has
| Office 97 or has the professional suite.
| But these are my business problems. What I want to know is how to
| make this technical solution work, if it can. Is it legal? Milly's
| comments about the registry and windows folders are helpful.
| What goes in the registry? What critical things are in the Windows
| folder. Has anyone else tried this? Am I in the right discussion
| group?
|
|
|
|
| "Harlan Grove" wrote:
|
|| Hal.Stull wrote...
||| I travel from customer to customer and would like to carry my
||| office suite with me. I have a large capacity, pocket size USB
||| drive that I carry files, presentations, databases, etc. I cannot
||| always use my laptop at a sight for security reasons, but need to
||| work projects at multiple sites with different OS (2000, 98, ME,
||| XP) and different versions of Office. Is there some way to install
||| Office 2003 on this drive or could MS create an entire package:
||| Office, drive, installing drivers, etc that would allow the
||| software and files to be completely portable?
|| ....
||
|| If you can't use your own laptop at some sites, you're using
|| customers' PCs?
|| If your customers always have some version of Office, then plan on it
|| being
|| Office 97, design your presentations accordingly, and use their
|| Office software with your files.
||
|| If you have some customers without Office, what makes you think
|| they'd want
|| you to install Office on their hardware? (Unless they'd like a free,
|| pirated
|| version, that is.)
||
|| If security is such a concern, who'd let you walk around with a USB
|| drive much
|| less give you access to any other hardware?
Click to expand...
 
T

The Big Dish Man

Sorry - second attempt

My question is related but not directly to this thread. I need to run my
laptop's Office suite - primarily Excel and occasionally Word, Access and
Powerpoint, plus various other software on a pocket PC. I have not yet
bought the product (probably will be HP h6340) and before I do, I want to
verify how to install CD based software onto the pocket PC. I do have
bluetooth on the laptop. Is it just a case of running the install software
Yes, people have tried it and it failed miserably. If you really want a
potential solution that is OS/Office independent, try a PDA with a Margi
presenter for displaying PowerPoint or other video.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Hal.Stull asked:

| Security on customer LANs is not a concern, but an impediment. Under
| 98 and ME there were programs that would reconfigure my machine for
| various login schemes. XP doesn't work with these programs. I do use
| customer machines, but cannot guarantee that the one I am given has
| Office 97 or has the professional suite.
| But these are my business problems. What I want to know is how to
| make this technical solution work, if it can. Is it legal? Milly's
| comments about the registry and windows folders are helpful.
| What goes in the registry? What critical things are in the Windows
| folder. Has anyone else tried this? Am I in the right discussion
| group?
|
|
|
|
| "Harlan Grove" wrote:
|
|| Hal.Stull wrote...
||| I travel from customer to customer and would like to carry my
||| office suite with me. I have a large capacity, pocket size USB
||| drive that I carry files, presentations, databases, etc. I cannot
||| always use my laptop at a sight for security reasons, but need to
||| work projects at multiple sites with different OS (2000, 98, ME,
||| XP) and different versions of Office. Is there some way to install
||| Office 2003 on this drive or could MS create an entire package:
||| Office, drive, installing drivers, etc that would allow the
||| software and files to be completely portable?
|| ....
||
|| If you can't use your own laptop at some sites, you're using
|| customers' PCs?
|| If your customers always have some version of Office, then plan on it
|| being
|| Office 97, design your presentations accordingly, and use their
|| Office software with your files.
||
|| If you have some customers without Office, what makes you think
|| they'd want
|| you to install Office on their hardware? (Unless they'd like a free,
|| pirated
|| version, that is.)
||
|| If security is such a concern, who'd let you walk around with a USB
|| drive much
|| less give you access to any other hardware?
Click to expand...
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

The Pocket PC version of Windows has its own flavor of Office apps that they develop and maintain and you may want to check with the
folks in the Pocket PC group (link below) on what you can/cannot do or install on that Windows version and device type.

Installing MS Office software requires writing to the Windows registry something that doesn't usually occur if you're using another
PC as only a data disk storage media.

===========
Sorry - second attempt

My question is related but not directly to this thread. I need to run my
laptop's Office suite - primarily Excel and occasionally Word, Access and
Powerpoint, plus various other software on a pocket PC. I have not yet
bought the product (probably will be HP h6340) and before I do, I want to
verify how to install CD based software onto the pocket PC. I do have
bluetooth on the laptop. Is it just a case of running the install software
on the laptop whilst connected to the pocket PC and specifying the install
location on the pocket PC, or is more complicated? >>
--
Let us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.pocketpc
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.pocketpc

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com
 
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