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Problem With Old Educational Software.

crashtech

crashtech

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I'm doing a bit of pro bono work for a small school. They have some Windows 98 vintage software to administer spelling tests for grades 5-9. I'm to install it on three machines. Amazingly we got it running on Win 7 Pro x64 with the help of a patch. The software asks for the CD when you fire it up, but we don't want the kids handling the discs. The company does not offer an official way to run it without the disc, so I have mounted ISO images on the machine with Virtual Clone Drive. This works, sort of. Problem is, we want all discs on all machines, but the software doesn't pause to ask which disc we want to use, it just picks the disc with the highest drive letter. So we can't have all five isos mounted at once, but I don't know of a way to be able to have the kids select an iso for mounting that is simple and bulletproof. I would love for them to be able to just select one shortcut on the desktop and have it mount the correct image and fire up the program, but I don't know how to implement such a hack. Any ideas or alternate iso mounting software that might help?
 
It would be fairly easy in GNU/Linux, but you might be able to create a .bat file, and give it an icon/name on the desktop, where clicking it dismounts the currently active image, and mounts the correct one.
 
Alcohol 52% is a free virtual drive and you can (I think) have it set up so that when you double click an ISO it will auto mount. The program Auto Hotkey can do stuff too. Automate tasks that is. I use MacroMaker to automate game cheats and Auto Hotkey to send text messages automatically in a game. Like, "HAHA Pwed." I do that with a key combination.

If you do use Alcohol you may need SPTD. http://www.duplexsecure.com/downloads
 
OK, after reading your replies and letting my beer buzz wear off, I have decided to make batch files using cli commands to Virtual Clone Drive. They don't seem to be officially documented, but there's enough info out there to make it work, I think. All I need now is to brush up on how to properly express pathnames.
 
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