Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] how *not* to install software on XP Pro?

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

No URL handy, but I'm fairly certain that 'portable' versions of both 
Firefox and Thunderbird exist.  Also OpenOffice.  Many others as well 
probably.

-N

Jonathan King wrote:
> So there's this Windows PC to use, but the convention is that nobody
> installs software on it.  (It's running XP Pro, in case that matters).
> Needless to say, the lack of even something as trivial as Firefox
> will drive me nuts.  I'm guessing that some of you out there have an
> excellent strategy for this situation, which I'm guessing more or less
> works like this:
>
> 1) Buy a capacious thumb drive
> 2) Install stuff on said thumb drive
> 3) Always plug said thumb drive into the XP box.
> 4) Make sure that any temp files, etc. only get on this drive, to keep
> things "clean".
>
> I'm thinking that the minimum stuff you might want on this includes:
>
> Firefox
> Cygwin with lots of nice options
> ???
>
> The PC in question has Office XP and all that noise, antivirals out
> the wazoo, a VPN client, full versions of Acrobat and Distiller and
> some other decent things.  But the browsers available are Explorer 6
> and Netscape 4 freaking point 7.
>
> Any and all help would be helpful.  Suggestions that I use a shotgun
> or some ritual Japanese suicide sword are not helpful in this context.
>
> jking
>
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