Running Viewer from a Flash drive?

[Richard Evans]

I've seen instructions for running Viewer 2003 from an autorun CD, but
is there a way to run it from a Flash drive?

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Richard

The viewer is designed to run without having to install anything.

I can't see any reason why it would not run from a flash drive.

But I've yet to see Flash drives allowed to Autorun on a windows PC. So
there would need to be some user action to get it started

Cheers
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[Echo S]

There are some vendors out there who can autorun flash drives. I believe
they are partitioned. I haven't ever used them because they need your files
way ahead of time, and my clients very rarely give me that luxury.

http://www.google.com/search?source...LD,GGLD:2004-25,GGLD:en&q=autorun+flash+drive

http://www.customusb.com/preload.html

 

[Richard Evans]

There are some vendors out there who can autorun flash drives.

Autorun wasn't really the issue, I just wanted to be able to run a
slide show from a flash drive. An earlier poster said Viewer did not
require installation, but the version I downloaded did, and insisted
on installing itself in the Program Files directory. I couldn't see
any way to install it on a flash drive and, from what I know of
Windows, I would not expect to be able to simply copy installed
programs and have them work. As it turns out, that's exactly what you
do, and it works fine from the flash drive.