Trailer Life on my netbook

[MichaelG]

Well, I finally broke down and bought me one of those little netbooks (found a great deal so I couldn't resist). Cute thing, small, a bit slow, but for emailing and stuff is pretty good. My question is, how do I get the 2010 Trailer program installed on it? I have it on my desktop and on my wife's laptop, but want to have it on this little thingie, as well.

[Kevin_T]

Well, I finally broke down and bought me one of those little netbooks (found a great deal so I couldn't resist). Cute thing, small, a bit slow, but for emailing and stuff is pretty good. My question is, how do I get the 2010 Trailer program installed on it? I have it on my desktop and on my wife's laptop, but want to have it on this little thingie, as well.

May be I'm missing something here, but... Just plug your external CD drive to your netbook, and then insert the disk in the drive. That's all you should have to do, no?

[MichaelG]

Well, I finally broke down and bought me one of those little netbooks (found a great deal so I couldn't resist). Cute thing, small, a bit slow, but for emailing and stuff is pretty good. My question is, how do I get the 2010 Trailer program installed on it? I have it on my desktop and on my wife's laptop, but want to have it on this little thingie, as well.

May be I'm missing something here, but... Just plug your external CD drive to your netbook, and then insert the disk in the drive. That's all you should have to do, no?

What external CD drive? This one didn't come with any such thing. BTW, I'm well-versed in computers so don't hesitate to throw any detailed information at me.

[DK13]

No detailed information to throw. If you want to install programs from a cd/dvd to a PC without a CD/DVD drive you need to buy an external drive. You said you are well versed with computers, why don't you try sharing the CD on your home network. This is probably the easiest way to do it because most users these days have a network readily available, and assuming there’s a network there’s likely a PC with an optical drive connected to it.
First you need to load the CD/DVD into the optical drive in the PC. Now go to My Computer and right click on the drive with the loaded media, click properties, navigate to the Sharing tab (note if you haven’t done this before it may give you a warning that you shouldn’t do this unless you know what you’re doing, click the message to continue). Check the Share this folder on the network box, give it a name of your choice and hit OK.
From this point forward any computer on your network will be able to access the shared drive. If this is a problem be sure to follow the steps above and uncheck Share this folder on the network, to take it off.
Now, make sure your Netbook is connected to the network. Access My Network Places, and click Add A Network Place, use the wizard to add the optical drive you selected to share.
Now that it is shared you should be able to access it from My Network Places at any time (when your Netbook is connected to the network), and it should automatically refresh if you switch the CD, if it doesn’t do a right-click, and hit refresh and the files should update. If you are trying to install software and are used to auto-run, double click the Setup.exe file or similar to begin installation.

[Kevin_T]

MichaelG, NONE of them come with any such thing (unless of course a vendor has packaged them with a netbook as a special offer). You know, just like computers do not come with printers. If you buy a computer and you want to be able to print, you need to buy a printer. If you buy a netbook and you want to access things that are on a CD-ROM disk, you need to buy an external drive for your netbook. I don't get what's the tricky part in all this?

Of course, like DK13 did, I should have mentioned that there is another potential way to do it, without buying the external drive. If you have set-up a home network (most of us using Wi-Fi have that, and you said you pretty savvy with computers so you probably already have that), then set up your netbook as a node on that network, share your desktop's or laptop's cd-rom drive on the network, and then access it from the netbook and use it as if it was attached to your netbook computer.