From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Nope. The must-insert-CD nonsense is the "copy protection", and
is present in all games. Won't be fooled by that, but you can get no-cd
cracks for just about any and all games (available 30 seconds after the
game hits the stores) quite easily. For example:
http://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads-cat-82.html for flight simulator.
Just make sure you get the proper version.

I download those for all the games I play, simply because my CD drive is
noisy and slow, and I find it really annoying to swap the disks all the
time. Just be careful, some of the sites are very virus/other malware
loaded. Usually the Russian sites are pretty safe, but you'll have to do a
bit of guessing with the file names if you don't know the language.

Another thing you can do is get one of those virtual CD drivers, that will
allow you to have an image on your HD look like a CD in a drive. I've never
used them, but I think Roxio has one which is supposed to be pretty good.
You can have as many ISO's on the HD as you want and just select which one
you want to have in the "drive".


Antti Kurenniemi

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:41a2aa2a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Anyone know if copying all the CD's to a new drive letter on a HD, and
> then
> installing from there will relieve the need to have one of the Install
> disks
> in the CD drive when starting the program?  The Boss has a Dell Latitude
> laptop, that has NO drives (floppy or CD/DVD) built in (it's one of those
> ultra slim/light laptops), and he doesn't want to have to schlep the CD
> drive around, and connect it everytime he wants to run Flight Sim (while
> on
> an airplane, etc)...
>
> --
> Glenn M.
>
>
>

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