Patent ID: 7712094

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: providing a computer-readable master storage medium having a plurality of panoplexes stored thereon including a first panoplex that includes a first plurality of installed soft assets and a second panoplex that includes a different second plurality of installed soft assets, installed soft assets being soft assets that are integrated with an operating system in a way such that the soft assets work correctly with the operating system; providing a first computer-readable and computer-writable end-user storage medium; obtaining data that specifies a first selected one of the plurality of panoplexes; and writing the first selected panoplex to the first end-user storage medium, wherein at least part of actual directory data for the first selected panoplex is not written to a default location on the first end-user storage medium used by the operating system for a directory of the end-user storage medium and wherein the at least part of the actual directory data for the first selected panoplex is written elsewhere on the end-user storage medium, wherein the first plurality of installed soft assets are unavailable for use unless and until execution of further operations, wherein the further operations include accessing the at least part of the actual directory data for the first selected panoplex that is written elsewhere on the end-user storage medium and writing at least a portion of the accessed actual directory data but less than all of the accessed actual directory data to the default location used by the operating system for the directory of the end-user storage medium, and wherein the first plurality of installed soft assets are made available for use after the execution of the further operations without moving the first plurality of installed soft assets on the end-user storage medium after the writing of the first selected panoplex to the first end-user storage medium.