Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] installing windows apps on external devices

[Jack Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

You can set the drive letter the same on all computers by going into the
Microsoft Management Console (goofy name as it's a completely GUI app)
and using the storage plugin to set the drive letter. Set it to
something about 2/3 along the alphabet, such as T:\ such that it won't
be already in use by the OS for a local disk or a network drive, which
commonly are at the end of the alphabet. The USB drive has to be
unmounted at the time you do this, so stick it in the computer and then
use the "Safely remove" control. You have to have enough privilege to do
this- I know administrators can and do not know all of the Windows
privilege classes off the top of my head such as "Power User," etc.

I also just remembered that Windows NT variants will also let you mount
a disk to a location in the filesystem such as C:\disks\mydisk, similar
to how it's done in *nix. You could do that too but I can't remember at
the moment how to do that for anything except for a network share. I
haven't really used Windows much for many years and Windows doesn't
exactly make it easy to poke around in its guts.

--Jack

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 19:02 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> So if it's on a flash drive, say, the drive letter will change when I move 
> it from machine to machine.  That might cause it to fail.  That would 
> suck!  There should be a way around that.
> 
> Mike
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