On many public computers and work computers, administrative rights are required to load applications. Portable Apps will not work on these PC's. Is there a way to overcome this? MOJOPac(PC in your pocket) has overcome this issue. Is there a way to use Portable Apps on these PC's?
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http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/hellomojo.jsp
From the looks of it, it appears to be some kind of portable virtual machine of some kind. Basically keeping the apps only installed in the virtual machine would make them portable enough if the vm was portable to begin with, but I'm not sure how they expect performance not to suffer. In my limited experience with vm's they all tend to take a performance hit.
The apps here run on any version of Windows, from Windows 95 through Vista (as long as the base app itself supports it) and under any account type. It works under admin accounts (most home PCs), limited accounts (most office and school PCs) and guest accounts (net cafes, libraries, etc).
Mojopac, on the other hand, will only work under Windows XP with admin rights. It doesn't work on limited or guest accounts. And it doesn't work under other versions of Windows. Mojopac is *FAR* more limited in where you can use it than portable apps are. And it's a lot more expensive (free vs $30 per device, soon to be $50).
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It sounds like cbalas is saying that the IT dept. has set it up so that admin rights are required to run anything except what's on their whitelist.
Vintage!
In that case, there's not much you can do except, perhaps rename some of the apps to trick the whitelist. Mojopac won't run on these PCs either, of course.
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Actually, PC world(January issue) states that the admin rights issue in MOJOPac will be resolved in the next version of the software. On the MOJOPac site it states that this will indeed be the case in version 2.0 of the software.
"Bahamut" is correct in saying that My IT department will not let any software be installed on work PC's. And if I see it right, Portable Apps is in effect installing everytime a program starts. I have also seen this on other PC's in public locations. An error comes up stating that you cannot install software without admin rights.
Portable apps don't install on the local PC. They run from the external device. Some PCs are configured not to allow any applications to run from external devices. This prevents ANY portable setup from running (portable apps, Ceedo, U3, Mojopac, portable linux environments, etc) regardless of how that setup is configured.
In testing, portable apps leave less cruft behind on the local PC than any other platform (Ceedo, U3 or Mojopac). And Mojopac is only really usable from very fast USB devices as the applications you run on them are not optimized to be portable. It's really only suited for high-speed portable hard drives... not flash drives. Running from a flash drive is pretty slow... slower than any other approach. No one can share with you how slow, though, as Mojopac forbids benchmark testing in their end user license agreement, which you have to agree to to install it (How's that for a restrictive license?).
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I am using Portable Firefox to post this right now, I am using my school laptop, without admin rights
I stated that on "Many" computers, not all. A school computer is semi private. You log on and they know who you are and what you are doing on the PC. They know what you install and what sites you visit. Can you imagine in a public place like say, "The Westin Hotel" in the business room where they have public use computers. That anyone could install any software they wanted? It would be a nightmare for them.Therefore they have it restricted to Admin for anytype of installation. Now I have not tried the PC at the Westin, but I would bet this is the case.
It's VERY VERY few. Windows 2000, XP and Vista allow you to run executables from removable media under admin, limited and guest accounts by default. You have to install additional software or make some very specific changes for it to not permit applications to run from those drives. Limited and guest account can't install software by default... but portable apps don't install stuff, so they run quite happily under those accounts. I've successfully run all the software on this site under a Windows 2000 Guest Account (the trickiest situation to get applications running from external devices). And I've run it from the business centers of the major hotels in the US without issue as well.
The whole PortableApps.com Platform runs quite well on computers in offices, universities, hotel business centers, libraries, net cafes, etc. except for those that truly lock down computers to prevent people from running any application except specific ones. And, on those computers, you won't be able to run anything at all from your device, regardless of what you install on it.
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At The Oasis Shopping Centre, with the kiosks, it's easy to close the kiosk software. They disabled the Windows key (physically), but Ctrl-Esc still works
My friend used Miranda IM Portable on it, not with a USB, but he connected to my network
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I was recently in a seminar centre with plenty of internet terminals offering a high-speed connection. Unfortunately, they all were running TrustNoExe (http://beyondlogic.org/), which prevented the use of just *any* portable app that runs from the stick
This nasty piece of software should be the declared enemy of sites likes this one
I hadn't used IE in months, and having to do so was truly a dreadful experience.
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