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May 3, 2014 - 2:13am
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spakkaps
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Portable App which does not need to write to registry

Hi all,

Im sure this has been covered but could not find it in the discussions.

I have a new job which I would like to do modications to images such as cropping, etc as part of my sumbission briefs, At home I use Photoshop but they dont have this at work.

I would like to use Freeware Gimp or a portable version of Photoshop which I have, but the problem comes in with the work computer.

As a Domain user I have no rights to write to the registry, and therefore no portable apps I have tried will run on the work PC.

Does anyone know of a workaround for this

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May 3, 2014 - 3:04am
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just to clarify

you want to run an app (I don't think it matters what app) that doesn't use the registry of the host system at all?

if so that isn't quite what most portable apps here achieve.

it is an interesting problem though and, I think, depends entirely on an app not knowing about the win registry and wanting to use it in the first place, i.e. the app is more at home on an *n*x system than a win system.

anyone have other thoughts?

Wm

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May 3, 2014 - 4:28am
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Ken Herbert
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Not the app, the original developer

An app ignoring the registry is not necessarily a Windows vs other OSes thing, it comes down to the programming of the app.

All of the software I develop is built and released solely for Windows, but none of it ever touches the registry, because that is the way I made it. The only registry entries that will be created are the ones Windows or other installed programs make, which wouldn't be blocked by Group policies or other means of limiting users on a network.

That said, I can't claim how useful any of them will be (I only use GIMP for editing) but we do have the following other image editors released officially (in no particular order):

  • Fotografix - doesn't use the registry
  • LazPaint - doesn't use the registry
  • PicPick - Uses registry, but only barely - unfortunately freeware not for commercial use, to use it legally for work you would need to buy a licence
  • PhotoFiltre - Also uses registry but again it may work despite that - again freeware not for commercial use, licence needed to use it at work
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May 3, 2014 - 5:29am
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Thanks WinterBlood. I

Thanks WinterBlood.

I suspected it would be a problem with the way the app was originally written rather than a portable problem.

I have tried making my own portable's using Spoon and Evalaze etc, and these worked perfectly on all my own machines except the work one as well.

I will give the apps you listed a go (with exceptions of PicPack) and if nogo, or are not what I am after I will speak to the IT doods and get them to fix me up with something.

Thanks for your quick reply.

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