I don't know if there have been any requests for the following:
but I will try this and if it is any good, I will report back.
Cheers
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The people who make this share the same (or similar) philosophy to PAL, in fact I would say they are a step up in terms of rigor since there are too many so-called "portable" applications at portableapps.com (soundforge) that are not really portable at all so if portablization is core business for PA.c then it would seem features can only come from apps.
What does this have to do with this particular program?
Well, there's a front-end for XAMPP, which is arguably useless; so a dev needs to portabilze this to stay relevant.
I'm not sure why the random aside is included in your post, but every single app published here is fully portable. Unlike other "portable" sites, we don't allow apps that don't meet the definition of portable: https://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app
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Hi John,
I won't go into it here but there are some "apps" that leave registry dust and others require admin (I'd argue the latter is more acceptable) privileges.
Anyway, this little Uniform Server works absolutely great.
From the user manual:
"In the context of this documentation portability is defined as an application that does not install data in the registry on a host PC. Generally applications ported to Windows from a Unix environment are inherently portable for example Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. These require just a few minor tweaks to run them in a portable mode
Applications can be run either as a standard program or as a service. Uniform Server Zero supports both methods. Running an application as a standard program requires that application to be manually restarted after powering-up a PC and logging in. This disadvantage is resolved by optionally placing an entry in the start-up menu to provide automatic restarting after logging in. Although not portable, it is a small concession for users that require this functionality. In contrast applications that run as a service automatically start after powering-up a PC, this is the preferred method when running a production server. Again this is not portable so remember to uninstall services before moving servers.
Similarly, editing the Windows hosts file is not a portable operation. That said Uniform Server Zero provides support to manually and automatically add and delete entries in this file."
Added some punctuation for readability.
Nothing here leaves anything in the registry on a clean exit except things generated by Windows itself. And those are the types of entries we purposely do not want to mess around with manually. If you notice something not performing according to those guidelines, please post a bug report in the forums. If we don't have a bug report, we won't know about it.
The only apps we distribute that require admin rights are when the app itself by its very nature requires admin rights to run whether or not it is installed. Disk utilities, network analysis, registry cleaning, uninstallers... these are all impossible without admin rights due to Windows' security model, so it makes sense for the tools to require them. You're free not to use these types of system tools... and indeed, a typical end user has no need of them. They're designed for systems admins which constitute a good percentage of our users.
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