Can u run IE off a CD?
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- timA
The programmers here have created something internally that requires using IE with less security.
Does anyone know if the IE Administrator Kit or anything else allows you to:
1. Run IE off a CDROM
2. Scale down the security of IECheers...
- jevad0
what do you mean run IE of a cd-rom - like autorun an html file from a cd?
- timA0
Basically we have in effect a website which is a essentially a huge catalogue of Word files on a CD for internal users who are geographically dotted around. They select Word files from this catalogue and a VB program assembles them in a single Word doc as you go round.
But apparently the latest IE has beefed up security which messes our program. So I'm just trying to find if you can run a slimmed down security stripped version of IE off a CDROM, so that it doesn't need to install over their existing IE.
The system's distributed on a CDROM so it'd be ideal... I'm only asking cos someone here reckons it used to be possible with IE to run it off a CD with no installation.
- ribit0
sounds like you are ruling out running this on platforms other than Windows?
- timA0
Yeh totally... It's for 60 people in the field, all running the same version of Windows (Win 2000) and all running the latest version of IE.
- sparker0
you could just write a simple, bare-bones web browser in Delphi (or other lang) taht uses the IE ActiveX component in Windows...
Then, just run that browser off a cd...
But, I'm gonna ask why does this use word docs and why not just write a program that does all this for you? You can create some pretty simple Delphi apps with database backends.
The fact you are running it entirely off a cd means that updating any of the data is a pain anyway.
Better yet, why not just build a web service to do this?
- yeah man thats a five minute job - just do that...fadein11
- timA0
Thanks for the suggestions, sparker. It's a bit of a mess really as apparently IE's security has been beefed up over the past 6 months possibly stopping the solution from working.
The bare bones browser idea is great, it's just a lack of time and so on means we can't go for it.
The info has to be in Word Docs. It's basically a way for someone to create one whole Word Doc from 100s of separate ones...using a catalogue. Really a guess it should have been done as a stand alone application that interacts with Word, and then the IE security issues would never arise.
The reason it's on a CD is the people who will be using this could be anywhere, often needing to assemble documents without accessing to the web.
Thanks for the ideas though. I'll put them to the guy who's built the system.
- utopian0
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- oey0
- utopian0
Seriously... can I run IE off a CD? No homo.