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av8er OA.com's taint with wings. The only person to have a 20 double post	posted on 02-04-2002 @ 11:24 AM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00	I figured some of the tekkies here might be able to help me. I have a CAD program that I use here at my job that requires the cd to be in the drive while using the program. Is there a way to bypass this by editing the registry or something? Having to have the cd in the drive is starting to really get on my nerves. As far as I can tell the cd only needs to be in the drive when saving files and opening files. I have taken it out and forgotten about it until it's time to save, then it prompts me for the cd. Any help would be appreciated guys....Thanks in advance. Av8er Radio [AIM] [ICQ] [E-Mail] Paralyzed. Nothing's getting through to me. Hypnotized from all my surroundings. I wanna be something I could never be. I wanna say things that I could never say. Yeah, I'm gonna do it again! Sick of my life. I'm tired of everything in my life. Dragged down. Rubbing my face in the ground. No time for the undecided. I wanna know why I've always felt alone. And I wanna love. Why am I untouchable? Yeah, I'm gonna do it again! Sick of my life. I'm tired of everything in my life. I never wanted to be sick of my life. I'm tired of everything in my life. This message was edited by av8er on 2-4-02 @ 11:29 AM
Jack Meehoff Teh funny blah blah absent blah blah teh blah	posted on 02-07-2002 @ 1:30 AM
Psychopath Registered: Jan. 02	Well.. The ways that I have gotten around that in the past were by two different programs. The first one was Virtual Drive. The second was FakeCD. Both of these programs would allow you to copy everything from the cd to a directory on your hard drive and then create a "virtual" or "fake" cdrom drive that pointed to that directory. Thus in fact tricking your computer into beleiving that the directory was actually a cdrom. I haven't used these programs since the original quake came out so I don't know if you will be able to find them or if you can if they will be able to work on newer operating systems. EDIT: Found Virtual Drive 6.0 on Grokster. IM me (AOL OAJackMeehoff or MSN waybaker@hotmail.com) if you would like me to send it to you or give you a link of where to download it from. EDIT AGAIN: Virtual Drive 6.0 only works on Windows 95/98/ME according to the dialog box that popped up. I think it has to due with something about windows 2000/xp not using the older aspi drivers. This message was edited by Jack Meehoff on 2-7-02 @ 1:47 AM
Patrick Bateman	posted on 03-22-2002 @ 2:39 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Oct. 00	There may be a setting in the registry about the path to your CD-ROM drive for that software program. If there is, you could change it to a hard drive, and copy the contents of the program to your hard drive. You could also try un-installing it, copying the CD to your hard drive, and installing it from there. Some programs just look for the install path to make sure you can run the program. If you plan to edit the registry, just make sure you are changing the right key, or the whole program could stop working. Definitely back up the registry before you mess around with it too much.

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