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Article: Getting started with portable apps: it's still possible to keep your applications on removable media.(ONLINE SCIENTIST)
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- Scientific Computing
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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MANY OF THE APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS, particularly the larger applications, such as office suites, are tightly locked to the specific machine on which they were installed. The reason for this is that much of their configuration information is stored in the Windows system registry. While you can install an application to an external drive, such as a USB drive, if you move this drive to another system, this registry information will be missing and the application is likely to crash. This is not universal; you can still find applications that avoid using the registry that can be moved Between machines simply by copying their executable files over, but they ...