Portable App Development

Is it possible to make parts of the registry portable? The most evil part of windows is the registry!!

Sorry that I'm always the guy posting about Apps leaving files...
But
The Backuptool is leaving a folder called
nsr37.tmp (or something like that)
and a
registry.dll
inside.
So its the NSIS registry plugin.

Why does my Portable NSIS always makes an error with John's
"RequestExecutionLevel user" ?
Do I have an old version of NSIS?

Is it possible to make a shareware product a "Portable App"? What are the steps?
Thanks for any reply.

Lifehacker has a post for a (portable) program that makes your screen look like you placed a drop cloth over it. All the screen is blanked out (transparency and color can be set) and only the task bar and your active app are "normal"...

http://lifehacker.com/software/distraction/lifehacker-code-dropcloth-win...

If you are interested...

Rich

I just discovered Steves Libertà page at PortableApps.com (For the curious, it's here)
So my question is: Is there any list of all the project pages here or are they like eastereggs on DVDs, only revealed by people who found them by accident and reveal their existence to the public like me

I have a few apps which are basically portable (they run from a single directory, without saving anything to the registry or local disk). For example, ToME (roguelike game), 4NT (command processor, commercial, "inikey" version"), TCI (tabbed console interface, commercial, "inikey" version). They certainly don't make enough of a mess for me to be bothered working out how to write a full-scale "Portable" version.

Is the portable version of NSIS available? I can't seem to find it anywhere. The only link/reference I have found is to portasoft.org, which seems to no longer be in existence.

Thanks.
Brandon

I love the PortableApps idea ... and use it regularly. The ease of use with OpenOffice Suite and having Firefox available for it is great ... it would however be nice to also see Eudora available for it as well. I've tried Thunderbird a few times but just don't quite enjoy it much, maybe I'll eventually get used to it.

I'm trying to do my first attempt at creating a portable app and I am having difficulty in understanding what and where to do with registy information. below is the registry changes as noted when using RegShot. Do I put these in an external file (ie:portable.reg) or do they go within the ApplicationPortableTemplate.nsi (and if so where and how are they formated - example using below would be nice :-)). Finally, it sounds like I don't want absolute paths as shown in the registry entries below - what should I change them to?