To start off, I am aware that you can't "portable-ize" an installed program by installing it to removable media on one computer and then expect to be able to use the program on a different machine, unless it is a portable version by design or a standalone executable (which doesn't need to be "installed" anywhere really). I'm not asking about doing something like that.
What I would like to know is whether a program intended only to be installed on one computer, can be installed with most of the installation ending up on removable media (with the caveat of course that the program can only be run when that media is present).
The reason I ask is that I've got my eye on a Windows tablet (the ASUS VivoTab M80TA specifically) which comes with full Windows 8.1 on it rather than RT, meaning that desktop PC software can be installed on it. It has 64GB of disk space on board, but it also comes with a microSD slot which can take a 64GB card. I'm wanting to know whether putting one in would give me effectively 128GB of disk space for program installation purposes - for instance, could I assign the card a drive letter like "D", and then choose the D drive as the installation directory in Program-I-Want-To-Install's installation wizard, and expect a usable install out of it? Or could that 64GB card really be used only for holding files like music/videos/pictures/documents and the like?
By extension I'm interested in the same question regarding USB flash drives. Supposing programs can't be installed on the extra space of the SD card, could they be installed on a USB drive via an OTG cable, again using the "install on D" method, and with the same caveat that the program could only run while the drive was plugged in?
Thanks in advance.
What I would like to know is whether a program intended only to be installed on one computer, can be installed with most of the installation ending up on removable media (with the caveat of course that the program can only be run when that media is present).
The reason I ask is that I've got my eye on a Windows tablet (the ASUS VivoTab M80TA specifically) which comes with full Windows 8.1 on it rather than RT, meaning that desktop PC software can be installed on it. It has 64GB of disk space on board, but it also comes with a microSD slot which can take a 64GB card. I'm wanting to know whether putting one in would give me effectively 128GB of disk space for program installation purposes - for instance, could I assign the card a drive letter like "D", and then choose the D drive as the installation directory in Program-I-Want-To-Install's installation wizard, and expect a usable install out of it? Or could that 64GB card really be used only for holding files like music/videos/pictures/documents and the like?
By extension I'm interested in the same question regarding USB flash drives. Supposing programs can't be installed on the extra space of the SD card, could they be installed on a USB drive via an OTG cable, again using the "install on D" method, and with the same caveat that the program could only run while the drive was plugged in?
Thanks in advance.
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