Installed Software Sharing

blinky

Why not look to see if you can do Cisco CCNA or Comptia Network+ at a local college?

delluver

blinky wrote:

Why not look to see if you can do Cisco CCNA or Comptia Network+ at a local college?

Ok, usually self taught though... thanks, I will enquire.

cymro1170

gavsto2005 wrote:

Oh jesus, not again!!

Im going to suggest that this is a bad idea and you are going to have all sorts of problems with it, including the possiblity of missing registry entries, missing DLL's etc if you do it this way. It's ok with smaller programs that are just EXE's but with huge suites like office and encarta its a bad idea. They don't take up that much space anyway, the packages you mentioned = Max 4-5 gig and that's if you install everything. Only install what you need on the machines if you are particulary bothered about it but you aren't going to see a signficant boost in performance, definitely not enough to warrant running suites like encarta from a network drive!

Are you telling me to install the programs on all the PC's? I only have one "licence" - are you condoning Piracy?
You'll have to explain this better to me... please

Mr_Skint_2

Are the Operating systems on all PCs if so youve already committed
yourself to death by MS :rotfl:

Seriously if you are a home user it doesn't matter that much
as long as you dont sell copies of software etc.

MS are allowed to gather data on copies but cannot prosecute
by collecting this data, its just to see how many copies are
in circulation.

However if an Audit is done you will be fined to high heaven.

As did Bousfields the ink suppliers in Longwell Green Bristol

£65000.00 for about 8 machines with no License.

Stabilo

I have a small home network and have XP professional installed on all machines. With 'Remote desktop' you can run applications remotely. However the machine being accessed is 'locked' during the remote application.

Remote desktop is not available in XP home.

There are other applciations like PCAnywhere etc that would do the same. I suspect there are also shareware programs so you wouldn't need to buy multiple copies of the commercial remote access software for each networked machine.

If you only use one machine at a time remote access software could be a solution (try googlw for shareware remote access software).

Works well for Office applications but some games might run slowly (if at all) via remote access.

I use it mainly to configure the upstairs rooter from downstairs etc (lazy b*****).

Stabilo

delluver

Stabilo wrote:

I have a small home network and have XP professional installed on all machines. With 'Remote desktop' you can run applications remotely. However the machine being accessed is 'locked' during the remote application.

Remote desktop is not available in XP home.

There are other applciations like PCAnywhere etc that would do the same. I suspect there are also shareware programs so you wouldn't need to buy multiple copies of the commercial remote access software for each networked machine.

If you only use one machine at a time remote access software could be a solution (try googlw for shareware remote access software).

Works well for Office applications but some games might run slowly (if at all) via remote access.

I use it mainly to configure the upstairs rooter from downstairs etc (lazy b*****).

Stabilo

You can use remote destop via MS NetMeeting (if you use Win XP Home) which is buried deep within the Windows folder in your C drive (or you could download it) - but using remote is slowwwww that way. Especially if you use remote in msn. Urk!

Nothing wrong with being lazy - I call it an efficient power conservation technique