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Thunder_Mountai
Explorer II
Jan 04, 2014

New computer has no optical drive, how to load Office 2003

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 wo...
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wa8yxm
Explorer III
Jan 10, 2014
Just remembered something I did long time ago..... Short story:
Computer had either no optical drive or a faulty one

HOWEVER the computer was networked with other computers and one of them had a perfetly GOOD Optical drive.

Was able to set that drive so it was "Shared" on the network and then MAP it in as a "Network" place on the new drive. (MAP a network drive).

And use it "Remotely", worked great.

Now I have a USB optical drive so that problem will not (I hope) happen again.

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