The biggest gotchas to installing any program on an external
drive and then trying to use it on more than one machine is that
when a program is installed:
a. entries are made in the windows registry for the installed
program; and
b. some essential files for the program are not installed in the
program directory but are installed in the Windows and
Windows\System directory.
You would have to repeat the installation on each machine to get
those parts of Windows set up correctly.
Updating might also be a problem if some of the revisions affect
files in the Windows folder(s).
You could certainly download the setup program only once and save
it on the USB Drive as a source for the updates of each machine.
In your case I think the time taken to download a full
installation version each time might be less than the time taken
to update each machine separately since the update program
downloads the needed files from the internet.
Once the Millenia people return from their cruise they may be
able to provide more insight into the impact on an existing
installation of the updates. If all the revised elements are in
the Legacy folder you would only have to update once.
Bruce Jones wrote:
Should I install Legacy on a USB drive?
I am currently running with Legacy installed on both my desktop and my
laptop with my data on a USB drive which I move to the computer I am
using. This allows me to use whichever computer I want or need to us
without having to remember to "sync" the data each time I move to the
other computer.
Since I use a dialup connection, the download of Legacy Updates is
quite slow. So I am now wondering if I should remove Legacy from the
two computers and install it instead on my 40GB USB drive.
I see two benefits from this change: 1. I will only need to download
the Legacy updates once instead of downloading twice (once to each
computer). 2. Any user settings I make will be in effect for both
computers (I now need to make these changes twice).
Are there any downsides or gotchas to this approach?
Thanks,
Bruce Jones
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