Studenttech1
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My Computer Operations class instructor told his students we have a Microsoft online store with free software, programs, etc to download as students. We were give the special password and the website.
I was pretty excited and when I went home and got online in the Microsoft store I saw this "Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate 32-bit (English) - DreamSpark - Download" and then the "Microsoft Expression Design 2 32-bit (English) - DreamSpark - Download".
I just remember it had Visual something on it, and being the complete new student I thought oh, that might be a cool program. I did the download, and noticed in my computer suddenly a BD-ROM drive appeared with the picture of the program. I hadn't clicked the set up yet in the downloads folder that I could remember. I didn't do anything further after that, in fact I think I stopped any set up that started to take place because I realized this wasn't a normal type application. (I think at the time I thought it was like an adobe photo shop because of the word visual in it..LOL)
I am in my 4th week of classes, and we are now on a chapter talking about the various disks and disk management. I learned about Virtual Hard Drives and suddenly realized that maybe the computer/program had created a VHD for the program? I clicked on my computer again to look at it, and right clicked it and saw there was "eject" so I clicked "eject" to see ok what will it do. The picture icon of the Windows Visual went away and now all you see is the actual BD-ROM drive icon by itself. Now scouring through the internet I see where some folks say if you have run a program like Daemon tools that this can appear (I don't have a BD-ROM drive) I have a regular DVD / CD player (Asus).
I do have Daemon tools lite on my computer but that was something that appeared about 6 months ago after I had my computer serviced by some technicians. I never knew what it was and didn't bother clicking it at the time.
I guess my question is, A) is this a virtual hard drive my computer created? B) is it going to be an issue for my system? C) how do you undo this and get rid of it if I don't need it, or should I keep it if later on I try to use VM ware or Microsoft Virtual PC (my class instructor suggested for learning Linux OS)?
I know, I apologize I am very much a noob and in the very beginning stages of learning all of this. Trial and error for me pretty much at this point.
I was pretty excited and when I went home and got online in the Microsoft store I saw this "Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate 32-bit (English) - DreamSpark - Download" and then the "Microsoft Expression Design 2 32-bit (English) - DreamSpark - Download".
I just remember it had Visual something on it, and being the complete new student I thought oh, that might be a cool program. I did the download, and noticed in my computer suddenly a BD-ROM drive appeared with the picture of the program. I hadn't clicked the set up yet in the downloads folder that I could remember. I didn't do anything further after that, in fact I think I stopped any set up that started to take place because I realized this wasn't a normal type application. (I think at the time I thought it was like an adobe photo shop because of the word visual in it..LOL)
I am in my 4th week of classes, and we are now on a chapter talking about the various disks and disk management. I learned about Virtual Hard Drives and suddenly realized that maybe the computer/program had created a VHD for the program? I clicked on my computer again to look at it, and right clicked it and saw there was "eject" so I clicked "eject" to see ok what will it do. The picture icon of the Windows Visual went away and now all you see is the actual BD-ROM drive icon by itself. Now scouring through the internet I see where some folks say if you have run a program like Daemon tools that this can appear (I don't have a BD-ROM drive) I have a regular DVD / CD player (Asus).
I do have Daemon tools lite on my computer but that was something that appeared about 6 months ago after I had my computer serviced by some technicians. I never knew what it was and didn't bother clicking it at the time.
I guess my question is, A) is this a virtual hard drive my computer created? B) is it going to be an issue for my system? C) how do you undo this and get rid of it if I don't need it, or should I keep it if later on I try to use VM ware or Microsoft Virtual PC (my class instructor suggested for learning Linux OS)?
I know, I apologize I am very much a noob and in the very beginning stages of learning all of this. Trial and error for me pretty much at this point.