Microsoft Office Click-to-Run 2010 (Protected) (Q:)

I had a similar problem with this Q drive that just came from nowhere...I have only just managed to sort out all the full access + permissions to my system with the help of someone here..I now have no restrictions at all.....Except, this microsoft office click to run Q drive...I can't change anything about it at all, it's having none of it...It doesn't really bother me now that I know what it is, but....After a system update a few weeks ago, I had to restart + when I did, My microsoft word starter 2010 that I use, had been taken over by this office one....I couldn't get into any of my files that I had created in word, although they were in my files on my hard drive, the system couldn't access them....

I eventually managed to get them back in the end by doing a system restore to get word back....I'm not too impressed with that..If it does that again, I may not be able to recover all my work this time...It seems to me that although I am used to windows 7 now + on the whole, it's a pretty good OS, but it does seem to have some horrendous setbacks that would make things a **** of a lot better for everyone if they could be sorted out....

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

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What is the use than, beside annoying people ?

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.

"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:

• the person (ie MS) who sets up the virtual computer has complete control over the "environment", ie control of the simulated hardware and operating system (sounds like Apple ... hmmm)
• isolating a program inside of a "virtual computer" provides a degree of security from malware. This security goes both ways, protecting the virtual from physical, and visa versa
• MS has setup this virtual environment to bypass the Windows Update process.  All Office updates inside of CTR are "pushed" from MS to the users, at MS's convenience (and sometime much to the inconvenience of users when the "update" is broken!)

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.