What happens when an application is run from the Applications Menu?
The files and settings that are necessary for the application to run are copied from our servers to the local computer and the user’s profile. If the application has been run on the computer before and the user has run the application before the files should already be present and the process will simply launch the application. However if the computer hasn’t already got the necessary files or the user hasn’t run the application before, the relevant files will be copied to where they are required. This is why a user may need to run an application from the Application Menus again if they are using a different workstation from when they last ran the application. Some software packages can take a while to load on the workstation for the first time due to their considerable size having to be transferred over the network.
