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On 26/11/13 19:18, Gordon Henderson wrote: > The issue with windows is the same old thing -running "third > party" software on a locked-down Win PC - is it actually possible > in todays corporate outsourced school PC world... Ideally the resultant package would be either in the "portable" style of portable Firefox, Tor Browser Bundle, etc, where one simply unzips the complete package to an arbitrary point on the User-writeable account and runs from there; or like Cygwin, which can be installed to a similarly arbitrary writeable location within the account and then pre-pending the necessary values to $PATH (scriptable via a batch as part of the installer); or even like Google Chrome, which installs to the "local" section of a user's account rather than to a system directory (which is why Google chose to do this incidentally: they knew that many of their potential users were in corporate environments on locked-down installs, frustrated with their IT-mandated Internet Explorer crap so wanted to bypass Admin restrictions). So definitely possible in theory, although I have no idea how deeply your RTB package would need to integrate with Windows system utilities. I'd actually be willing to help with this when the testing point comes, particularly as I have access to lots and lots of disparate corporate Windows networks to actually try deployment. I could also test the Mac side of things of well, but I share your pessimism on that front... Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq