[Virtualacorn-list] VRPC on a USB drive

[Alan Adams]

In message <5209441732dave at triffid.co.uk>
          Dave Symes <dave at triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <73C59E61A0004805806FF43FB75C8CB1 at philipsdesktop>,
>    T.O.M.S. <toms at ndirect.co.uk> wrote:
> [Snippy]
>> Move or copy? Either way it shouldn't make any difference to being
>> able to run a copy of VirtualRPC from a plug-in USB drive.

> Thanks for the additional notes Alex, running from other places has not
> been a problem until now. (Farce **)

<snip>

> (**) Of course, in reality the whole thing is a farce, as none of the
> backed versions of VRPC are running really, all that double clicking the
> VRPC.exe is doing is running the one installed on the Hard drive. (nnn)
> The only way to run the stored versions, it to put them back on the Beast
> Hardrive.

<snip>

> (nnn) I know this to be a fact, as part of the testing I did recently
> involved Moving the Beast VRPC directory to another place on the same HD,
> then attempting to Run any of the backed VRPC versions... Pwarp!

I suspect the problem is not quite that, but that there are registry 
entries associated with the software, which call up things in the 
original installed copy. With most windows software, you cannot simply 
copy or rename it elsewhere - you have to reinstall - and the registry 
is a large part of the reason for that.

To truly test it, you will need to install VRPC onto your NTFS 
formatted USB drive. That will also set the file permissions correctly 
- FAT32 doesn't have file permissions, NTFS does, which is one reason 
NTFS is usually to be preferred for professional use - it gives a 
small increase in protection against mistakes.

> D



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