Yeah I tried doing that already with photoshop and opening it on my sisters laptop which didn't have photoshop installed. It actually opened all the toolbars loaded and everything but after it loaded I got an error saying something about not having enough memory for authorization. I thought maybe it was trying to find memory on the cd so I copied all the files off the cd to her HD but still got the same error if I remember correctly. It probably isn't possible but thanks for the response. If anyone else has an ideas I would greatly appreciate them.