I have a family history app i run on usb stick in xp. The app is not installed but copied install files from my "c" drive to it and it runs ok except some reports don't print out, because of reg entries. I want to pass this usb stick to family members to run on their pc without installing it. Can i use a bat file cmd to assign the usb drive = to "c", as in the old dos cmd "assign"? I thought that way i could load the data files in a folder on the "c"drive, thru the bat file, and all should work ok. Or is there a better way. Any help appreciated.
vandyoThere has to be a better way.
Study the documentation for the program.

What you want is called a"portable" application program. Such are made to run from a USB flash with no problems. But the program has to be designed that way down at the source code level. I don not think there is a easy way to convert a binary to run as a portable application.

But people keep proving me wrong!

How to make an application portable (convert any SOFTWARE to portable USB)

Can't be done...
C: is reserved for the boot drive only...
If this doesn't make sense time to re-consider what it is you want to do here...Quote from: patio on May 10, 2012, 05:58:14 PM

C: is reserved for the boot drive only...

Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers RATHER than equipment controllers and to organize a company around this concept.[1] He also co-hosted the PBS TV show The Computer Chronicles.

It just so happens that on MOST computers, the C:\ drive is the boot drive.