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I just removed the Microsoft Office 2010 to reinstall a fresh one because the previous one is a trial and when I click start to use the Microsoft Office, it always load to page 4 of 4 and pop up an error saying that Microsoft Office is unable to start, I decided to remove it and brought to my school so the instructor can install a full version of Microsoft Office 2010 for me. But then inside the My Computer it automatically built up a "drive?" Microsoft Office Click-to-Run 2010 (Protected) (Q:) [doesn't have this drive at new bought]. I couldn't remove this nor using uninstall from the Control Panel. It run the uninstalling but while the process is popped up an error stated that the process cannot be complete. Please contact the Microsoft Product.
Anybody know the solution for this, please I need help.
here is the screen shot of the Q:
http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e345/PhoenixWEI/?action=view¤t=Untitled-1.jpg
Processes in Microsoft 365 for setting up Office apps, redeeming product keys, and activating licenses.
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This is by-design. The Click and Run version uses AppV [1] which creates this drive.
André
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App-V
"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/
tried the link - it no longer works. says it moved, click on new link but it just sends you to ads or to a home page that doesn't have the info.
Solution is to not worry about it. Everything is fine.
"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/
Everything is NOT fine. This drive is inhibiting the installation of Siemens-Simatic Engineering software. Which is vital to my current occupation. If you're going to reply with a solution, ensure it's REAL and not some assurance that it's not a problem.
"Click-to-Run" and "App-V" are MS names for the concept of a "virtual computer". Another name for this is a "sandbox". A term often used by modern browsers.
Basically, what happens is that inside the Q: drive / Click-to-Run / App-V a whole separate software only computer is created emulating all of the hardware and software needed to run a computer program. This isolates any program running inside of the "virtual computer" from programs running on the "physical" computer. The most obvious example of this program isolation is that MS advertises that you can now install an Office 365 trial that includes Outlook on a computer with an older version of Outlook (you still can only have one version connected at a time to the MS Outlook servers).
"Virtual Computers" provide a number of features / advantages:
Apparently the drive letter was not an absolute (no mention of "laws") requirement of Windows, but simply result of the way that MS decide to define the 2010 Starter App-V / CTR. As a result of the complaints from 2010 Starter users, they changed App-V for 2013 so that it no longer displays a drive letter.
The Starter team very likely did not have way of hiding it, because displaying it is a Windows requirement.
That is windows for you, sorry we can dow nohing becouse it is a requirement, how about that, some of these very high paid programmers put that in there, so it can be taken away also.
I dont beleve that there is a law anywhere requireing that.
