I run my professional tax program on my PC can I put on this on an external drive and then connect and run on the asus? Thanks Cathy K
1002004
You can connect the drive (assuming it's USB), via the dongle or the USB on the keyboard, but your Tax app will not run, unless it's in the app store. If you are looking to reaplce your laptop, I would look towards a slate or surface professional that run full blown Windows 8.
1002005
I would say no, not at this time. At this time it seemed to only accept programs from Microsoft store. New models that will have full windows8 may work for you. The one I had only had WindowsRT and it was very limited and only used Internet Explorer and did not support programs that I needed to use on a daily basis. Also at the time I had it, there were a very limited number of programs available, they may have added more to them. It did come with Office programs so if that is what you use, it may work.Good luckNancie
1002006
No you would need a full version of windows 8 to run your program. This version is RT and does not support full programs.
1002007
Cathy, If I understand correctly, you wish to run the tax program remotely via the Asus RT machine... If that is the correct scenario, then yes, you could use either "Remote Desktop" to login and run the program on your office computer remotely, or use Logmein.com with some registry tweaks on the ASUS RT and remotely run the office computer via the RT.... Which Tax program do you use? If on the other hand you wish to run the program physically, you would probably not be able (99% no) unless it was a web based program, then you should be able to provided the web based program operates within the host server environment. I am interested to know which tax program you use...Chris Cathy, If I understand correctly, you wish to run the tax program remotely via the Asus RT machine... If that is the correct scenario, then yes, you could use either "Remote Desktop" to login and run the program on your office computer remotely, or use Logmein.com with some registry tweaks on the ASUS RT and remotely run the office computer via the RT.... Which Tax program do you use? If on the other hand you wish to run the program physically, you would probably not be able (99% no) unless it was a web based program, then you should be able to provided the web based program... » Read More Cathy, If I understand correctly, you wish to run the tax program remotely via the Asus RT machine... If that is the correct scenario, then yes, you could use either "Remote Desktop" to login and run the program on your office computer remotely, or use Logmein.com with some registry tweaks on the ASUS RT and remotely run the office computer via the RT.... Which Tax program do you use? If on the other hand you wish to run the program physically, you would probably not be able (99% no) unless it was a web based program, then you should be able to provided the web based program operates within the host server environment. I am interested to know which tax program you use...Chris « Show Less
1002008
Probably not on Windows RT, but a pro model of this tablet hybrid will probably work.
1002009
Asus vivo tab has RT version of windows 8. It will no run your prof tax soft. There some really good atom tablets that will run any program
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Shouldn't be a problem - the software comes with a USB hardware key that is needed to run the software. As long as you have the key inserted, you can run the software on any computer.
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I would say you can provided that you have ESATA (External serial ATA). I had problems booting and shutting down my computer when connected to a usb because when connected to a usb it tries to be the primary drive. Should work fine with esata. I run games and other program from my external drive.
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Hi, to be honest ! i sold that pc before i use it! but from my experenice ? i think you can? shouldn't be any problem? regard
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No. You must use a software program on your PC to accomplish that. I've had great luck with ISpy and it's free.
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You can install and run on one computer at a time. License issues. Need to get separate software to run on another computer.
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Danny and Elizabeth, many games and applications installed system files into the main hard disk, so running them off the external on another PC might not work. That's why there are special software applications for that. It's called portable application (portableapps.com).
462881
Yes you can. Just note that it is a bit slow, so it is good for things such as adding programs, apps and such, but running from disk or movies I would say no.
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No, you can use the external hard drive, it only support internal hard drive, sorry for that.
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Copy the software from the CD to a flash drive and the plug the flash drive into the ASUS and youre good to go. Works for me. I also purchase a little slim CD/DVD burner on ebay for about 46 bux. it plugs into two of the usb points, one for data and one for power. It's about 1/2" thick and just a little bigger the a CD.
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Most licenses do allow you to load on the desktop and laptop at the same time. Since you can't use both at the same time you're still using the single license. As for installing it appears to work fine.
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so you are saying that if i don't want my Game on my pc all the time i can put on this. when i want to play it just plug it in and it will run? also i need the cds to run the game also.also i have some viewing programs..which allows me to view certain files..but i don't view them all the time its just for those rare times..that will be sweet if i can put those programs onto this and use it when i need it :)wow thanx im goin to try it
844293
Yes you can. Great PC, for low level performance. Microsoft office & desktop works great. Enjoy
1482353
I use it on my Macbook as a time machine drive. I just plugged it in and it backs my machine up without any manual steps. So it can be used as an external without using any of the software that may have been on the drive. I hope this helps
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I haven't tried to do it, but I don't see why not so long as there is a Mint/Linux kernel for that CPU and drivers. Note that the machine came with the OS installed so be sure to do a backup and boot media. You might want to contact ASUS: http://service.asus.com, +01888-678-3688 to be sure.
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Yes to the HP, I have one and it works. I have also used an external hard drive but bear in mind if what you want to do requires local programs to use, it won't. Of course, there are online options for almost anything you might want to do, so if you're willing to learn a few new apps this is not a problem.
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Yes you should be able to do this using something like Clonezilla or Accronis I believe. However, if you are cloning your main drive to the external, you will not be able to use it during that time of course.