Excel install on USB Stick

Hello,

is it possible to install excel 2007 on an USB stick.

because i want to work with excel 2007 on my wor, they have an old version
office 2002


regards

schmalen

No

"schmalen" wrote in message
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Hello,

is it possible to install excel 2007 on an USB stick.

because i want to work with excel 2007 on my wor, they have an old version
office 2002


regards

schmalen

"schmalen" wrote in message
...
Hello,

is it possible to install excel 2007 on an USB stick.

because i want to work with excel 2007 on my wor, they have an old version
office 2002


regards

schmalen

No.

Installed programs are listed in the Registry -- they are registered to
operate on the machine. Programs loaded onto a USB are not registered on the
machine you are moving the drive to, so they will not work there.

There is an exception.

If the USB is a bootable device, then you can install programs and
applications to it, then boot from the USB device on another machine so the
the Registry on the USB device is loaded, making access to the programs and
applications possible.

This has overhead with your office machine that you probably want to avoid
though. You may get locked out of the network, making your e-mail and other
business enterprise applications not work.

If you open work files with Office '07, you have to save them to the earlier
version or your co-workers won't be able to open them if you send files
around the office as e-mail attachments. Or, store them in shared folders on
the network. Basically, if you open an '02 file with '07 then save your
work, the file isn't an '02 file anymore, and '02 users will not be able to
access stuff that you accessed first.

"Jeff Strickland" wrote in message
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"schmalen" wrote in message
...
Hello,

is it possible to install excel 2007 on an USB stick.

because i want to work with excel 2007 on my wor, they have an old
version office 2002


regards

schmalen

No.

Installed programs are listed in the Registry -- they are registered to
operate on the machine. Programs loaded onto a USB are not registered on
the machine you are moving the drive to, so they will not work there.

There is an exception.

If the USB is a bootable device, then you can install programs and
applications to it, then boot from the USB device on another machine so
the the Registry on the USB device is loaded, making access to the
programs and applications possible.

This has overhead with your office machine that you probably want to avoid
though. You may get locked out of the network, making your e-mail and
other business enterprise applications not work.

If you open work files with Office '07, you have to save them to the
earlier version or your co-workers won't be able to open them if you send
files around the office as e-mail attachments. Or, store them in shared
folders on the network. Basically, if you open an '02 file with '07 then
save your work, the file isn't an '02 file anymore, and '02 users will not
be able to access stuff that you accessed first.


The issue you have with your theory is that Windows XP and later operating
systems that will run Office 2007 will not install onto a USB bootable
device and operate and Office will also not install to any removable devices
either.

While there have been claims of being able to install XP onto a USB Hard
drive, none have been documented openly so that it can be reproduced.

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"Jeff Strickland" wrote in message
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"schmalen" wrote in message
...
Hello,

is it possible to install excel 2007 on an USB stick.

because i want to work with excel 2007 on my wor, they have an old
version office 2002


regards

schmalen

No.

Installed programs are listed in the Registry -- they are registered to
operate on the machine. Programs loaded onto a USB are not registered on
the machine you are moving the drive to, so they will not work there.

There is an exception.

If the USB is a bootable device, then you can install programs and
applications to it, then boot from the USB device on another machine so
the the Registry on the USB device is loaded, making access to the
programs and applications possible.

This has overhead with your office machine that you probably want to
avoid though. You may get locked out of the network, making your e-mail
and other business enterprise applications not work.

If you open work files with Office '07, you have to save them to the
earlier version or your co-workers won't be able to open them if you send
files around the office as e-mail attachments. Or, store them in shared
folders on the network. Basically, if you open an '02 file with '07 then
save your work, the file isn't an '02 file anymore, and '02 users will
not be able to access stuff that you accessed first.


The issue you have with your theory is that Windows XP and later operating
systems that will run Office 2007 will not install onto a USB bootable
device and operate and Office will also not install to any removable
devices either.

While there have been claims of being able to install XP onto a USB Hard
drive, none have been documented openly so that it can be reproduced.

I must admit that I've got no personal experience. I do have several
machines that will boot to a USB drive -- this is a BIOS setting -- and I
assumed that if one was going to have a bootable USB device, then the OS
ought to load from the device. I have no practical knowledge that it will
work, but if it will not work, I see little benefit of having a USB in the
Boot Sequence.

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"schmalen" wrote in message
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Hello,

is it possible to install excel 2007 on an USB stick.

because i want to work with excel 2007 on my wor, they have an old
version office 2002


regards

schmalen

No.

Installed programs are listed in the Registry -- they are registered to
operate on the machine. Programs loaded onto a USB are not registered on
the machine you are moving the drive to, so they will not work there.

There is an exception.

If the USB is a bootable device, then you can install programs and
applications to it, then boot from the USB device on another machine so
the the Registry on the USB device is loaded, making access to the
programs and applications possible.

This has overhead with your office machine that you probably want to
avoid though. You may get locked out of the network, making your e-mail
and other business enterprise applications not work.

If you open work files with Office '07, you have to save them to the
earlier version or your co-workers won't be able to open them if you
send files around the office as e-mail attachments. Or, store them in
shared folders on the network. Basically, if you open an '02 file with
'07 then save your work, the file isn't an '02 file anymore, and '02
users will not be able to access stuff that you accessed first.


The issue you have with your theory is that Windows XP and later
operating systems that will run Office 2007 will not install onto a USB
bootable device and operate and Office will also not install to any
removable devices either.

While there have been claims of being able to install XP onto a USB Hard
drive, none have been documented openly so that it can be reproduced.

I must admit that I've got no personal experience. I do have several
machines that will boot to a USB drive -- this is a BIOS setting -- and I
assumed that if one was going to have a bootable USB device, then the OS
ought to load from the device. I have no practical knowledge that it will
work, but if it will not work, I see little benefit of having a USB in the
Boot Sequence.

There is some benefit to having USB in the boot sequence to enable some
operating systems like the free Linux versions or system repair equipment to
boot, but since Windows is a paid for operating system and ties itself
closely with the hardware (drivers) in the computer a version of Windows
that could be transferred to different physical computers would be difficult
and Microsoft would not like that possibility in that it would reduce their
profit.