Hello,
I didn't find the search function in the forum, so I will ask directly. With portable apps, where are the registry entries stored? Surely for most apps there need to be a rerouting since they otherwise would request infos from the windows registry directly.
I would like to change some setting that I would have to change in the registry normally, but with portable apps it's likely some file, right?
Thank you!
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When not running, the registry files are stored within Data for the app, usually within AppNamePortable\Data\settings
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Sadly I can't find it there for ChromePortable. There are three directories in AppNamePortable. App, Data and Other.
I can't find anything regarding simulated Registrysettings in there. Only one .reg file that suppresses error messages, but it targets the real registry.
Apps that require registry entries are loaded before launch and saved after close with any existing files backed up.
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Do you mean that there is no point in time when I would be able to adjust a reg setting?
I want to add this key to the registrydata that the portable chrome is using. Or maybe it does not need registry entries?
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome]
„AllowDeletingBrowserHistory“=dword:00000000
That can't be altered without admin rights on the local machine. That's a corporate policy setting. I can add the ability for the launcher to do that, but it would only work when run as admin.
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It is not for a corporate laptop. This registry setting is the only way that I found searching on how to prevent chrome to stop deleting the history for links that got visited three months ago. Brave has a similar key with the same name. Maybe edge as well. Since they are all based on chrome by now.
Apparently chrome set it up so that there is no native setting for keeping the history in chrome anymore. But this key should prevent it according to some websites.
Which is what I want, I use extensions to mark visited links and it makes my life easier to instantly see which link I followed already. Getting history deleted is not good.
So since it is about my private laptop I always can have admin rights.
You can just set the registry entry directly using Regedit and Google Chrome Portable will use it in that case.
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Great, that's also a solution then. So when I set the registry for chrome and brave then it will be valued by both, the installed and the portable versions.
Thank you!
Regedit is scriptable. That is not enough. What happens as an application starts, runs, ends crashes, or any sudden termination? Some thought needed.
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Check the app's directory or its documentation.