is it possible to run an App from a cd or dvd?

[esar]

Is it possible to install an application TO a cd or dvd? then be
able to take that cd or dvd to any other Pc - and run that
application, making it unnessesary to actually install the App on that
Pc.
and of course if it is possible ~ how? or what programs are there to
perform the task?
thanks.

 

[John John (MVP)]

If the application is a self contained executable or one that doesn't
use the registry at all then probably yes, but otherwise no, that won't
work. Most applications need to be properly installed and need to write
entries to the registry, the application then needs to use those
registry entries to work properly.

John

 

[dadiOH]

Is it possible to install an application TO a cd or dvd? then be
able to take that cd or dvd to any other Pc - and run that
application, making it unnessesary to actually install the App on that
Pc.
and of course if it is possible ~ how? or what programs are there to
perform the task?
thanks.

You can copy the apps folder to a cd. If you then run that CD located app
on another computer there are two possibilities...

1. If the app did not need to be "installed" originally, it will run fine;
however, if it trys to write to a file internal to itself - an ini or cfg,
for example - there may be problems. Generally, it will be OK

2. An "install" app - one that requires registry entries to set itself up -
may...
(a) make required entries (silently) in the new registry and run fine
((b) require "registration" and/or configuration if such was needed
originally
(c) get all confused and do nothing.

If it runs - and it probably will (a or b) - then it *IS* installed on the
different computer because it has made the needed registry entries.


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[esar]

You can copy the apps folder to a cd.  If you then run that CD located app
on another computer there are two possibilities...

1. If the app did not need to be "installed" originally, it will run fine;
however, if it trys to write to a file internal to itself - an ini or cfg,
for example - there may be problems.  Generally, it will be OK

2. An "install" app - one that requires registry entries to set itself up-
may...
    (a) make required entries (silently) in the new registry and run fine
    ((b) require "registration" and/or configuration if such was needed
originally
    (c) get all confused and do nothing.

If it runs - and it probably will (a or b) - then it *IS* installed on the
different computer because it has made the needed registry entries.

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It'll be an interesting experiment to find out,
there seems to be programs out there for memory stick programs
(portable apps)
but havn't come across anything specifically saying it could install a
prog' onto other
media - like cd or dvd - maybe I'll just have a try at the above
suggestion, and see what happens!
I'll try, and I'll keep searching.

 

[beamish]

Is it possible to install an application TO a cd or dvd? then be
able to take that cd or dvd to any other Pc - and run that
application, making it unnessesary to actually install the App on that
Pc.
and of course if it is possible ~ how? or what programs are there to
perform the task?
thanks.

Hello,
Here are a couple of sites that may be of use.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopp.html
http://portableapps.com/
take care.
beamish.