Here's a new one.

A colleague just asked me if Excel could be installed on a USB keyfob.

My gut says no but I'm curious to hear from others. Storage space wouldn't
be the issue (it's a 2 gb keyfob). I've never heard of applications being
run off USB storage devices though.

Thoughts?

Dave
--
Brevity is the soul of wit.

Hi, Dave-
I bet you could install it on the thumb drive, but software
installation is more than just storing the exe file: there are hooks
into the computer's registry, for instance. This is just a guess: you
could install and run it from the USB device, but likely only run it on
that machine. And if a program is on the registry but the computer or
registry doesn't locate that software (for instance, if that USB device
was not installed) I'm not sure if error messages would result, or
what. Let us know if you try!

I have a 2GB Iomega thumb (mini) drive where I downloaded OO so I could run
spreadsheets on machines that don't have XL.

Iomega calls this feature "Active Disk", and you can download many different
programs to the thumb drive and take them along with you.


http://www.iomega-activedisk.com/landing.jsp


Never tried to use the sites download feature on any other brand.

Might work ? ! ? !
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Regards,

RD
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"Dave F" wrote in message
...
Here's a new one.

A colleague just asked me if Excel could be installed on a USB keyfob.

My gut says no but I'm curious to hear from others. Storage space wouldn't
be the issue (it's a 2 gb keyfob). I've never heard of applications being
run off USB storage devices though.

Thoughts?

Dave
--
Brevity is the soul of wit.

The installation process for Excel includes making a large number of registry
setting entries which would not be possible on your USB drive... sorry...
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Dave F" wrote:

Here's a new one.

A colleague just asked me if Excel could be installed on a USB keyfob.

My gut says no but I'm curious to hear from others. Storage space wouldn't
be the issue (it's a 2 gb keyfob). I've never heard of applications being
run off USB storage devices though.

Thoughts?

Dave
--
Brevity is the soul of wit.

It's a Dave thread!

I'd _guess_ what Dave O. wrote will represent a problem.

But maybe one day...

There's supposed to be a USB drive/software that's made for this kind of thing:
http://www.u3.com

(maybe one day (hehe) they'll support excel)

But instead of going back empty handed, share this site with your colleague:
http://portableapps.com/

A version of OpenOffice is listed!

Dave F wrote:

Here's a new one.

A colleague just asked me if Excel could be installed on a USB keyfob.

My gut says no but I'm curious to hear from others. Storage space wouldn't
be the issue (it's a 2 gb keyfob). I've never heard of applications being
run off USB storage devices though.

Thoughts?

Dave
--
Brevity is the soul of wit.

--

Dave Peterson

Interesting info.

Thanks to all; will share this with my colleague.

Dave
--
Brevity is the soul of wit.


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

It's a Dave thread!

I'd _guess_ what Dave O. wrote will represent a problem.

But maybe one day...

There's supposed to be a USB drive/software that's made for this kind of thing:
http://www.u3.com

(maybe one day (hehe) they'll support excel)

But instead of going back empty handed, share this site with your colleague:
http://portableapps.com/

A version of OpenOffice is listed!

Dave F wrote:

Here's a new one.

A colleague just asked me if Excel could be installed on a USB keyfob.

My gut says no but I'm curious to hear from others. Storage space wouldn't
be the issue (it's a 2 gb keyfob). I've never heard of applications being
run off USB storage devices though.

Thoughts?

Dave
--
Brevity is the soul of wit.

--

Dave Peterson

I've been interested in the same thing for some time and have run in to all
the same problems as described above here with Excel. Some old programs I
use, like Paint Shop Pro 7 can be done that way, and it's real handy to have
with you when you need it.........now I'm looking in to seeing if I can put a
whole Operating System on a Jump Drive to actually boot from it, and then
maybe Office could be put there too.....anybody seen/heard of doing that?
For me, that would be the untimate.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Dave F" wrote:

Here's a new one.

A colleague just asked me if Excel could be installed on a USB keyfob.

My gut says no but I'm curious to hear from others. Storage space wouldn't
be the issue (it's a 2 gb keyfob). I've never heard of applications being
run off USB storage devices though.

Thoughts?

Dave
--
Brevity is the soul of wit.

If you search google for "bootable jump drive", you'll get lots of hits.

Nope, I haven't tried it. <bg

CLR wrote:

I've been interested in the same thing for some time and have run in to all
the same problems as described above here with Excel. Some old programs I
use, like Paint Shop Pro 7 can be done that way, and it's real handy to have
with you when you need it.........now I'm looking in to seeing if I can put a
whole Operating System on a Jump Drive to actually boot from it, and then
maybe Office could be put there too.....anybody seen/heard of doing that?
For me, that would be the untimate.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

"Dave F" wrote:

Here's a new one.

A colleague just asked me if Excel could be installed on a USB keyfob.

My gut says no but I'm curious to hear from others. Storage space wouldn't
be the issue (it's a 2 gb keyfob). I've never heard of applications being
run off USB storage devices though.

Thoughts?

Dave
--
Brevity is the soul of wit.

--

Dave Peterson

Yeah, thanks Dave........I got a week off coming up, maybe I'll get it to
work then.....

Merry Christmas to you and yours............

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Dave Peterson" wrote:

If you search google for "bootable jump drive", you'll get lots of hits.

Nope, I haven't tried it. <bg

CLR wrote:

I've been interested in the same thing for some time and have run in to all
the same problems as described above here with Excel. Some old programs I
use, like Paint Shop Pro 7 can be done that way, and it's real handy to have
with you when you need it.........now I'm looking in to seeing if I can put a
whole Operating System on a Jump Drive to actually boot from it, and then
maybe Office could be put there too.....anybody seen/heard of doing that?
For me, that would be the untimate.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

"Dave F" wrote:

Here's a new one.

A colleague just asked me if Excel could be installed on a USB keyfob.

My gut says no but I'm curious to hear from others. Storage space wouldn't
be the issue (it's a 2 gb keyfob). I've never heard of applications being
run off USB storage devices though.

Thoughts?

Dave
--
Brevity is the soul of wit.

--

Dave Peterson