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Games, Programs, Etc. That rely on the Windows Registry.

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kronflux
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Games, Programs, Etc. That rely on the Windows Registry.

I was wondering about this, because I'm talking to my friend who's doing a project for school, and part of it is, he's running a game to show his project's results.
the game he's running is THPS3(Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3) PC, and he was asking me if it would work to copy the program files to his portable hard drive, and run it off that.
I told him I assume it would not work, due to required registry files, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
if it did require registry files, would there be a way to emulate these entries without having to add them to each computer's registry he runs it on?
or to somehow modify the way the program launches and tell it to use a file instead of registry keys?
and would this work for other programs as well?

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i'm not 100% sure but i

i'm not 100% sure but i don't think so. You would need the change the apps source code and recompile to do that. Some of the apps here even use the registry still. The registry keys are added on start and removed on exit, and i'm sure that's what you'd have to do to get THPS3 to run portably, not to mention clean up anything it leaves behind. I've never used it, but you could try Portable App Creator which someone on these forums wrote to try to automate making an app portable. Search for it if you want.

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I thought as much. oh well.

I thought as much. oh well. worth asking Wink

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