Thanks Harold, James, and Tim for your prompt and helpful advice, and thanks
to you in particular, Harold, for introducing me to Portable Apps, which I
am having a look at now.
Many thanks, James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Fuchs" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: [users] OOo installation question.?
2008/12/22 James Elliott - WA Rural Computers <[email protected]>
When you download OOo and save it to a folder under Win XP, you end up
with
a file which, when executed, first extracts itself, usually to the
desktop,
and then automatically proceeds to install itself.
Afterwards, you are left with two installation folders, the one you
downloaded, and the one on your desktop which contains the extracted
files.
QUESTION
If you were burning a CD or putting the OOo installation files onto a USB
thumb drive to give to a friend or colleague, would you:
1. give him/her a copy of the file you downloaded and saved;
or
2. give him/her a copy of the folder of extracted files from your
desktop?
I have never known the answer to this question. I, personally, usually
take
the downloaded file with me as it is only one file to copy and paste onto
my
USB drive, but, then again, when I run it on my customer or friends
computer
it puts a new folder on his/her desktop containing the extracted files.
I
usually delete this desktop folder after installation to avoid any
confusion
and to conserve space on their hard disk. On the other hand, if I run
the
installation from the extracted files then I don't get this folder being
created on the desktop.
So, which is the best approach?
I'd give them the original download simply because there are fewer "moving
parts", but either will do. If you give them the unpacked files they have
to
hunt through them for the one to execute (setup.exe, I seem to remember).
Also, the single file takes less space but more time to install.
You can also give them the portable version from www.portableapps.com
which
doesn't touch their Windows Registry and which can be used directy from a
CD
or USB key without affecting their system in any way.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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