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Mike Richter, were you born with
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species8350 wrote:

I want to create two directories on a CD-R.

The first will constin an exe programme.

The second will contain the installed programme files from the above
exe file (installed on CD-R).

I have Roxio Creator Software.
I run under Vista Home Premium, 32 bit.

You cannot run from CD ordinary programs that require installation by
copying the installed files to CD. For that you need "portable" version
of the program that is designed to run from removable storage devices.
It may well be that to run the portable programs from the CD all you
need to do is burn the portable programs to CD if the program does not
write anything. For the portable VLC (media player), however, you need
to install to hard disk, run it at least once to write configuration
files and then burn the install directory to CD. [Do you need
instructions on how to do this?]

You may experiment with portable CDBurnerXP:
http://cdburnerxp.se/downloads/portable/