HWiNFO32 Portable

in other thread missing splash screen, icon folders, etc.

The settings you list should be preset for it to be portable.

With the driver, you should be requiring administrative rights as drivers cannot be installed without said rights

I'm also surprised that, although it's installing a driver, there hardly seems to be any registry key left behind.
Regshot, Windows XP sp3 professional:

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HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\kmixer\Enum\0: "SW\{b7eafdc0-a680-11d0-96d8-00aa0051e51d}\{9B365890-165F-11D0-A195-0020AFD156E4}"
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\kmixer\Enum\0: "SW\{b7eafdc0-a680-11d0-96d8-00aa0051e51d}\{9B365890-165F-11D0-A195-0020AFD156E4}"

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Values modified:5
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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: 24 C3 5D 49 38 15 D7 A6 E8 3A E5 B8 94 53 7A 9E 86 A0 E7 BD A7 A5 30 69 66 AB 0E 3B 3F 88 4C DF 19 2F AE A1 21 83 94 83 31 D9 E9 4C 53 74 72 A5 2F 57 A2 BC 66 9C CA 27 5E 55 21 97 75 1D 18 20 92 9F AC 07 1A 82 7A 4A E0 05 05 EB 73 3A 5E 56
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: B2 DC 2E 70 2B 8A 0D 1F D5 23 68 A3 E9 17 E7 A1 DD 1B E9 B9 E2 91 3B 18 59 4B 35 1B 5C 91 B3 84 9D E0 5C F4 58 98 3A A5 98 4D A9 B3 C4 0D 7E FB C2 A1 64 8E 27 73 D7 89 41 FD AE 13 F0 C5 85 AD 5C 6E 1C 15 7F 31 5B 7B 57 8F C1 2B CA 80 1B B3
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\kmixer\Enum\Count: 0x00000000
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\kmixer\Enum\Count: 0x00000001
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\kmixer\Enum\NextInstance: 0x00000000
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\kmixer\Enum\NextInstance: 0x00000001
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\kmixer\Enum\Count: 0x00000000
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\kmixer\Enum\Count: 0x00000001
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\kmixer\Enum\NextInstance: 0x00000000
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\kmixer\Enum\NextInstance: 0x00000001

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Files added:2
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D:\PortableApps\HWiNFO32Portable\Data\HWiNFO32.INI
D:\PortableApps\HWiNFO32Portable\Data\settings\HWiNFO32PortableSettings.ini

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Files [attributes?] modified:10
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C:\Documents and Settings\Gringoloco\ntuser.dat.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Logs\wbemcore.log
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\INDEX.BTR
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\INDEX.MAP
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\MAPPING.VER
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\MAPPING1.MAP
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\OBJECTS.DATA
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\OBJECTS.MAP

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D:\PortableApps\HWiNFO32Portable\Data\settings

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I wanted to inform you about another option for the launcher.ini, WaitForProgram=false, since the launcher doesn't have a need to actually wait for the app to finish.
But after I done some testing on it I realized that the option will prevent the app from a secondary-launch. I did inform ChrisMorgan (the autor of the PALauncher) about this.
Another thing, it would be a nice addition, when the user re-launches HWiNFO32Portable that it would come to the front of the screen.

btw: Test was done on HWiNFO32 v3.55
Probably it's better to edit the main topic to include the newest version link !

Is there any chance for an update? The last few versions have been skipped so far...

Is this being updated? The release team is currently going through applications in order to ready them for release, and I see you have a newer version available on your website. If you still want this added to the PortableApps.com directory, please update the package so we can test it and prepare it for release.

I think we're ready to launch this as official once it is updated to the latest version of the app and with the following changes:

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=HWiNFO32\HWiNFO32.exe
RunAsAdmin=force
DirectoryMoveOK=yes
SupportsUNC=yes

It should also be updated to the current PA.c Launcher 2.2 and PA.c Installer and the new help graphics from the current PortableApps.com Template.

I would also suggest digitally signing the HWiNFO32Portable.exe launcher since it will show up with the UAC prompt. If you don't have a digital signing certificate available, we can sign it for use in your build. Just drop an email to the developers address.

Note: I'm also emailing the dev that this post has been made.