[nfbcs] Netbooks and transfers

[Wunder, Gary]

Hello Jim. As others have told you, what you want to do is not possible.
Even though your machine does not have a disk drive, you can indeed
install by copying your CD to a thumb drive, but this implies finding
the CD. I don't know if the Microsoft Corp. has a replacement policy for
critical software. You may have to go to the Internet and look for other
providers. 

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Subject: [nfbcs] Netbooks and transfers

Howdy,

 

After a lot of careful research, I decided to purchase a netbook.  I
bought one of the brand new Acer 1 computers, which seems like a pretty
great machine, for the money.  My goal is not to replace my fully
working and nice laptop.  It is to enhance it and to have a portable
machine that is even easier to carry around than my laptop.  Upward
mobility.

Anyway, this has 160 gigs of memory, along with Windows XP.  I'd like to
take most of the programs and files from an old Toshiba computer that I
have and put them on this Netbook.  My Toshiba has been on its way out
for a good year and a half and is mainly used as an internet machine
because it's very slow and some of the programs don't work well.  .  I
don't have a problem transferring actual files.  However, there are a
few programs on it that I would also like to transfer.

The main program is MS Office 2003.  I can not find the CDs for it, and
even if I could, I don't have a CD drive on this netbook.  If I were to
copy the actual folder with the program and put it in the "Programs"
folder, would that work, and would the program run as it always does?
The copying of the folders and programs would be done to a thumb drive
which I could then plug in to the netbook.  Something tells me that
twhat I wat to do is easier said than done.  Am I right?

Mainly, it would be nice to at least have MS word on here for word
processing.  Anything else is bonus.

I do have good audio on this machine.for its size.  I think it'll be a
good media machine.

 

Thoughts?

Jim

 

 

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