On Windows it goes like this:

• place ActivStats in the CD drive and "Cancel" it when it auto-loads
• create a folder on your hard drive and name it ActivStats
• double-click your 'My Computer' icon to open
• find the ActivStats CD and right mouse click on it, select 'Explore'
• Drag & copy everything into the ActivStats folder

When finished, double-click the Activstats.exe to launch the course.

On the Mac it goes like this:

• place ActivStats in the CD drive
• create a folder on your hard drive and name it ActivStats
• double-click the ' ActivStats ' volume on your desktop to open
• Drag & copy everything into the ActivStats folder

When finished, double-click the ActivStats icon to launch the course.

Further Mac Note:

A more general approach for anything designed to run from CD on the Mac is to create a disk image of the CD which can then be mounted and used as though the physical CD were inserted.

In more detail:

Start Up Apple Disk Copy (Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X up through 10.2.x) or Disk Utility (Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4) typically in an Applications/Utilities folder:

Insert the CD and when it appears use the menu choice to create a disk image, saving the disk image file as read only (fast to create) or read only compressed (takes longer but uses less disk space).

To use the disk image file:

To avoid confusion, eject the physical CD. Double-click the disk image file. A new disk will appear resembling the CD just ejected. You can then run the program just as though the original CD were installed. Once DataDesk is running, for example, under Mac OS X you can move the DataDesk Icon in the Dock to a convenient location in the Dock which will cause it to be persistent in the Dock. You can now quit any programs or files you have open from the "CD" and eject the "CD". Put the CD disk image somewhere convenient and when you click the DataDesk Icon on the Dock, the system will automatically mount the disk image and launch DataDesk.

This works great for Games and reference CDs as well.

For you Unix geeks, you can also use the Unix utility dd to create a disk image file which will work similarly with Mac OS X as long as it is given the extension .dmg. Using dd is particularly powerful for creating disk image files of Mac or foreign OS hard drive, floppies, or CDs since they are byte-for-byte copies on which many disk repair operations can be performed without touching the ailing hardware. They can also be used to provide archival and virus incompatible access to all the files on a badly infected PC hard drive (this last works with Linux too, using the loopback device to mount the file as a drive).