Running PAM from a CD

...Actually, I haven't tried to run .paf format apps off of a CD drive, but I HAVE successfully run other apps that were portable off a burned CD.

It all depends whether or not the app in question attempts to write stuff back to the media it was launched from. If it does, you MAY be outta luck.

I say "may" be because there are *some* apps which'll try to do this, and issue error messages when they find they CAN'T do so - and yet those apps will still run OK after you dismiss the error mssgs.
Other apps, on the other hand, will not work once the error mssgs appear.
(YMMV)

Guess my counsel to you would be to burn .paf stuff to an -RW disc and go thru each app and see what kinda results you get.
No luck? - No prob. (Just erase the disc and re-use)

Hope this helps to partially answer your question, anyway.

Yes, you can. It does not try to write anything, so you are safe running PAM. For apps, unless it says under the support page of the app in the section "Run [appname] Portable Live" that you need to download "[appname].ini", you can just copy it to the CD and run it. Like Thunderbird will need a ini file, but 7-Zip won't. For apps that don't say whether they can or not, they generally can.

Kevin P.
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