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Fix Windows update of Microsoft Office
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I've Xposted this to alt.comp.hardware because it might involve hardware issues. I have a flash based netbbook with two partitions on a 32 GB SuperTalent internal PATA SSD. I use a 32 GB SDHC card as drive D:, formatted in exFAT. Win7 has flash support so I didn't mess with fancy drivers. On the WinXP partition I installed a Ph.D. written driver that makes flash access even faster than for the Win7 partition. It works and I don't want to mess with it or risk drive corruption. The freeware driver even allowed me to play with installation of a pagefile on D:. It did not go all the way and permit Windows to install a System Volume Information folder. Windows recognizes the 32 GB flash drive as removable and imposes Microsoft Corporation restrictions. However, under WinXP I was able to install Microsoft Office on flash drive D: without and update problems. I think the freeware driver convinced Windows that I did not plan to remove the drive. For some reason I forgot, I uninstalled the D: drive installation of Microsoft Office from WinXP and installed it under Win7. MS Office needs to be installed to work. This is not true of OpenOffice. It doesn't matter from which OS I install OpenOffice on D:, it works on both internal partitions. MS Office works on Win7 but it is problematic. Office update does not work. When I investigate I am told that update cannot write to a certain file on D:. I think this is a corporate language mashup. It really means that update willfully will not write to drive D: because of some kind of anxiety. I think the only solution is to find some means to permanently fool Win7 that the removable drive D: is a fixed drive like the internal flash drive. I've spent time looking into this problem but at this late date there may be some new ideas and solutions. At some point in the future I will probably upgrade to a 64 GB SDHC, when they are on sale. Drive copy is easy on an Acer Aspire One because it has two SDHC ports. SDHC cards are also used in cameras & camcorders, which is another convenience. Thanks in advance. |
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Fix Windows update of Microsoft Office
Norm X wrote:
Hi, I've Xposted this to alt.comp.hardware because it might involve hardware issues. I have a flash based netbbook with two partitions on a 32 GB SuperTalent internal PATA SSD. I use a 32 GB SDHC card as drive D:, formatted in exFAT. Win7 has flash support so I didn't mess with fancy drivers. On the WinXP partition I installed a Ph.D. written driver that makes flash access even faster than for the Win7 partition. It works and I don't want to mess with it or risk drive corruption. The freeware driver even allowed me to play with installation of a pagefile on D:. It did not go all the way and permit Windows to install a System Volume Information folder. Windows recognizes the 32 GB flash drive as removable and imposes Microsoft Corporation restrictions. However, under WinXP I was able to install Microsoft Office on flash drive D: without and update problems. I think the freeware driver convinced Windows that I did not plan to remove the drive. For some reason I forgot, I uninstalled the D: drive installation of Microsoft Office from WinXP and installed it under Win7. MS Office needs to be installed to work. This is not true of OpenOffice. It doesn't matter from which OS I install OpenOffice on D:, it works on both internal partitions. MS Office works on Win7 but it is problematic. Office update does not work. When I investigate I am told that update cannot write to a certain file on D:. I think this is a corporate language mashup. It really means that update willfully will not write to drive D: because of some kind of anxiety. I think the only solution is to find some means to permanently fool Win7 that the removable drive D: is a fixed drive like the internal flash drive. I've spent time looking into this problem but at this late date there may be some new ideas and solutions. At some point in the future I will probably upgrade to a 64 GB SDHC, when they are on sale. Drive copy is easy on an Acer Aspire One because it has two SDHC ports. SDHC cards are also used in cameras & camcorders, which is another convenience. Thanks in advance. You didn't state what version of Microsoft Office this is. The restrictions likely change from version to version. Contact the PhD who writes drivers, and see if there is an "RMB" bit in the interface. Telling the OS the device is not removable will do two things. Trash hotplug. But also make the device look like a more regular hard drive. You could add or remove the SD to the machine, when the machine is powered off (not in hibernate or sleep). http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html "Removable or what?" I don't really see installing licensed software on a removable drive, to be a "good starting position" for a company. You may be able to put OpenOffice or LibreOffice on the SD, but Microsoft Office would be another matter. Hacking the driver so it appears "fixed", might help. Uwe lists a couple filter drivers, but they are for very specific situations indeed, and not likely to work. Paul |
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Fix Windows update of Microsoft Office
"Paul" wrote in message
... Norm X wrote: Hi, I've Xposted this to alt.comp.hardware because it might involve hardware issues. I have a flash based netbbook with two partitions on a 32 GB SuperTalent internal PATA SSD. I use a 32 GB SDHC card as drive D:, formatted in exFAT. Win7 has flash support so I didn't mess with fancy drivers. On the WinXP partition I installed a Ph.D. written driver that makes flash access even faster than for the Win7 partition. It works and I don't want to mess with it or risk drive corruption. The freeware driver even allowed me to play with installation of a pagefile on D:. It did not go all the way and permit Windows to install a System Volume Information folder. Windows recognizes the 32 GB flash drive as removable and imposes Microsoft Corporation restrictions. However, under WinXP I was able to install Microsoft Office on flash drive D: without and update problems. I think the freeware driver convinced Windows that I did not plan to remove the drive. For some reason I forgot, I uninstalled the D: drive installation of Microsoft Office from WinXP and installed it under Win7. MS Office needs to be installed to work. This is not true of OpenOffice. It doesn't matter from which OS I install OpenOffice on D:, it works on both internal partitions. MS Office works on Win7 but it is problematic. Office update does not work. When I investigate I am told that update cannot write to a certain file on D:. I think this is a corporate language mashup. It really means that update willfully will not write to drive D: because of some kind of anxiety. I think the only solution is to find some means to permanently fool Win7 that the removable drive D: is a fixed drive like the internal flash drive. I've spent time looking into this problem but at this late date there may be some new ideas and solutions. At some point in the future I will probably upgrade to a 64 GB SDHC, when they are on sale. Drive copy is easy on an Acer Aspire One because it has two SDHC ports. SDHC cards are also used in cameras & camcorders, which is another convenience. Thanks in advance. You didn't state what version of Microsoft Office this is. The restrictions likely change from version to version. Contact the PhD who writes drivers, and see if there is an "RMB" bit in the interface. Telling the OS the device is not removable will do two things. Trash hotplug. But also make the device look like a more regular hard drive. You could add or remove the SD to the machine, when the machine is powered off (not in hibernate or sleep). http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html "Removable or what?" I don't really see installing licensed software on a removable drive, to be a "good starting position" for a company. You may be able to put OpenOffice or LibreOffice on the SD, but Microsoft Office would be another matter. Hacking the driver so it appears "fixed", might help. Uwe lists a couple filter drivers, but they are for very specific situations indeed, and not likely to work. Paul It is a long time ago and hard to remember details. For WinXP, I installed two non Microsoft flash drivers: cfadisk.sys, see: http://portableapps.com/node/7181 "to make a flash drive local not removable" and offire.sys by the flash Ph.D. offire.sys has some management options but I think it is fully optimized. Also exFAT support needs to be installed on WinXP. I have MS Office 2007. Because I am disabled I worked for a disability charity in 2010 and as a perk I got a sheet of Microsoft product keys. I don't have more recent product keys, but I'm thinking of buying a $99 Win8.1 cell phone. Remote desktop works for me. I think maybe I should try to reinstall MS Office under WinXP on top of its file system on D: drive. I had MS Office installed under WinXP on D:, then I uninstalled it for some reason I can't remember. When I changed my mind and tried to reinstall it under WinXP it would not reinstall. Maybe after years of registry cleaning any errors in the registry have been removed. Or maybe If I try a different product key Microsoft will permit it. At this point this is speculative and I am busy installing a version of Kali Linux on a PC the bedroom. PC waste heat warms my apartment. If I can get an installation to work on WinXP and if cfadisk.sys and offire.sys work as they should, then maybe MS Office update will work. MS Office update changes files and so it should make the install under Win7 work better. I have an installation of MS Office 2007 on my main server PC and I still get security updates for it. This reply was sent using Outlook Express on WinXP. |
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Fix Windows update of Microsoft Office
At this point this is speculative and I am busy installing a version of
Kali Linux on a PC the bedroom. PC waste heat warms my apartment. Wow. I just discovered GnuRadioCompanion, a block programmable driver for my SDR dongle, RTL2832U+R820T. It looks like a Linux version of Labview for software defined radio. When I was a graduate student I was restricted to software that could be purchased on a research grant. With BitTorrent it is like I have an infinite research grant. Kali Linux is free but it is tricky to download and install. |
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