Hello!
I found out a very interesting thing:
After installing some of the following freeware applications on my Windows XP computer I - just for fun - tried to copy them from the program folder to the PortableApps folder on my 8 GB USB stick:
Artweaver - www.artweaver.de
blender - www.blender.org
CeltX - www.celtx.com
Inkscape - www.inkscape.org
Scribus - www.scribus.net
SketchUp - http://sketchup.google.com
You will wonder - it worked. I've tried the stick with several XP computers without the programs above and it definitely worked. I just deleted - except to the main application.exe-file - the rest of the .exe-files to concentrate on the main applications and just show these in the PortableApps.com Menu. In some applications like SketchUp or Scribus you just have to renew your personal settings after every relaunch (less than 10 seconds of work).
Try it and write me about your experience.
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a lot with various apps. the same thing works with ePSXe, PJ64, HtmlKit, and a whole bunch of others. and BTW, were you talking about free or freeware? because last time i checked, inkscape was OSS, otherwise known as plain old free.
Zoop
many programs will work that way, but some like inkscape will leave data on the host computer and therefore are not fully portable without a launcher.
Inkscape leaves data in %appdata% and i think somewhere else
try reomoving all traces of the program then using Either REG shot or portable app creator to find where a program leaves data, which is all redirected in 1 of our installers
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Hello!
As I know, most of the named programs are free but not opensource. I just tried it to see whether it worked or not. By the way, Artweaver and DeepBurner are also available in a portable version. For very special needs of security the system that allows to run self created PortableApps could be safed for example with a PCSheriff to prevent it from changes in the registry. But I think the left datas by using self created PortableApps are not critical. It's maybe more critical to use the internet... ;o)
Greetings
Sketchup leaves a plethora of detritus in your registry when run this way. Don't know if it's an issue with you or not.
There is a fairly easy way to deal with it via a batch file:
rem -------------------start file-----------
echo off
regedit.exe /s %CD%\iSketchup.reg
%CD%\bin\sketchup.exe
reg.exe export HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google %CD%\isketchup.reg
regedit.exe /s %CD%\dSketchup.reg
rem ------------------end file--------------
the file "dSketchup.reg" should contain the following four lines
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bugsplat]
This batch file does the following
first line: Inserts the file "iSketchup.reg" into your registry (this contains all your settings). Make it a blank file for the first startup. It will be updated when you leave Sketchup.
second line: Runs Sketchup
third line: Exports the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google key to a file "iSketchup.reg". This key contains all the information that Sketchup saves to the registry. File locations, previous files, etc.
fourth line: Deletes most of the stuff left behind by Sketchup.
I use "bat to exe" converter from http://www.f2ko.de/English/b2e/index.php to create an executable with an ico that can be run as a ghost operation (no open command window). This all works very nicely.
chris
... I like that!.
Can I use it?....
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For Blender and Inkscape there are portable versions of the aps in the Beta forums. They at least are Open Source.
Please note that while there apps 'appear' to be portable they use often the host pc to store settings or write to the registry. While they work okay you might corrupt the settings of any already installed version of the application. Just copying the application files does not make the application portable.
Please refer to documentation on this site for more information.