Ana,
Using Windows-R and typing the full path into the run dialog box should 
have worked.
One of the things that I do with my portable copy of NVDA is that I've 
set up a shortcut file to nvda.exe.
Find the actual nvda.exe executable file which runs NVDA.
Right click it and choose create shortcut.
Your shortcut file is now created.
Rename the shortcut to something like Ana.
Once you do this, go into the run dialog and type e:ana, substituting E 
for the actual drive letter.
Autorun generally doesn't work with thumb drives anymore as of a few 
years ago, as Microsoft disabled it to avoid the spread of malware.

David Goldfield,

      Founder and Peer Coordinator,
Philadelphia Computer Users' Group for the Blind and Visually Impaired

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Ana G wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a quick and easy way to start NVDA from a thumb drive?
>
> I'm finally experimenting with the portable version of NVDA. My goal 
> is to try it on the computers at school, so I can use the computers in 
> the classrooms as I lecture rather than bring in my own all the time.
>
> To launch portable NVDA, I plug the thumb drive into my computer, 
> start Narrator, go into Windows Explorer, go into the thumb drive, 
> jump to the NVDA.exe file, and press enter. I'm sure that, once I've 
> done it a couple of times, it'll feel quick. Right now it feels like a 
> lot of steps, and if the computer is slow, I can imagine it feeling 
> incredibly slow as my students and I sit around and wait for things to 
> load.
>
> Is there a quicker way? I tried pressing Start, then typing run 
> e:/nvda.exe or run e:\nvda.exe, but that didn't work.
>
> I read a tutorial on using autorun, but I don't think I can do that 
> since I won't have administrator priveleges to set that up.
>
> Thanks for any wisdom.
>
> Ciao
>
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