[agracier]

I am assuming they will all work with the no DVD exe with the shortcuts renamed for Identification purposes?
My apologies if these appear to be dumb questions but at 63 I am not keen on changing names of folders unless I am confident I am not going to bugger anything up.

Once you have, for a first time, installed Il-2 from a purchased DVD, there is no need to use the dvd for booting up the game anymore.

You can make as many copies of Il-2, in as many variants as you wish as you wish and call them whatever you wish. They should all work. Just make sure you make a new shortcut for each and every version of the game.

Just be sure not to get confused ... I've got a clean 4.07 install, a clean 4.08 install, a clean 4.09 install, a UI1.1 install, a 4.08 map-maker, a 4.09 map-maker and several copies of these on separate internal and external hard disks ...

Talk about addiction and insecurity ... ha ha