rk911 wrote:
Thunder Mountain wrote:
Buying the wife a new laptop coming in a couple of weeks. Seems the newest ones don't have an optical drive. She uses Office 2003 for a few things and would like to have it on her new computer. Not work spending the $ for a new version of Office.
Have a legal copy of Office 2003 with install key. Can I copy the disk to my external hard drive and click on an exe file to install from the external drive?
get thee to any place that sells computer accessories and purchase a USB optical drive. $40-$90 depending. it's likely to be useful in the future.
Shoot, got this answer posted before I could! I bought the USB optical drive for my wife's Netbook and we have used it several times for different pieces of software. Even if it can be done by installing on one and then transferring to another, why bother when there's a simple and cheap solution available?
