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Dan - thanks for that. I remembered OffByOne from a couple years ago when I went in quest for the ultimate light weight browser. The limitations of page rendering is a problem, though. I did find something - Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html There is a Thinstall version (i.e. fully portable)...

Andrew - that's the interesting thing. This (and other about:config tweaks in FF) will work the first couple of times. But after that FF, Opera ... anything ... they all want to connect to the internet again! In my testing so far, Offline mode just can't seem to be fully locked down. I've tested thi...

I've seen an explanation for this somewhere - if someone can jog my memory ... A while ago I was trying out various portable versions of Gecko based browsers (Mozilla, K-M etc) as well as Opera in the hope I could use these as fully offline web page browsers. After trying various tweaks I couldn't s...

mwortman, Ok, what you are after can really only be handled using application virtualization. Thinstall is a rather expensive solution squarely aimed at the commercial / corporate environment. I've been testing this for work. So far we've had success with most Adobe products (except Acrobat Pro). ht...

As long as it is running, I can't start any other program. Calls are put on hold. For example, if I start an explorer session with Windows-E, nothing happens, but as soon as I close down OOWrite (or any other), the explorer window pops up. Have you got Process Explorer there? Have look at what is h...

Another definition: in scientific / academic research circles, specialist software can be defined as "portable" since it can be run on any OS that runs JAVA, or some other HL mess. . I've seen a few linguistics apps like this which were actually very well coded, quite fast and stable.

XPect - thanks for the link.

Yucca - yes, it needs 2.9x beta(s) to work.

http://sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=10

NB: be aware of bugs causing system crashes - latest update seems to have fixed that:
http://sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1562

Thinstall creates a sandbox. The default address is: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Thinstall You can see the virtual reg data there. But it depends on which build options you use in the .ini. - if it's WriteOnly or Merged. Read more at their site (btw, well worth reading t...

Just checked the database here and Altantis WP comes up as non-portable. However it does look like it can be run from a USB stick by following the instructions outlined here: http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=663 General Info: http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/ http...

For anyone experimenting with Universal Extractor (same link as above), it's just been updated to v 121, with preliminary support for NSIS installers. Very handy to have in your reg monitoring / diagnosis toolbox. Thanks to DigeratiPrime for the link!

Andre

IMerge is a program which allows multiple images to be placed onto a large virtual 'canvas', and arranged to produce a single large composite image, or mosaic. In regions where multiple images overlap, the result is an average of all contributing images - this has the effect of improving the signal...

Indy, You can test out a few things here first: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_editors.html Abiword (see "Word Processors" here) SC Unipad is very good but the free version has a number of limitations. http://www.unipad.org/main/ http://www.unipad.org/download/ [choose the zip v...

Yes! But it does get pretty insane having hundreds of itty bitty utilities sitting on your drive.

Thanks for the suggestion - http://www.jv16.org/ looks promising!

Andre

Screen RULER Highly configurable free Screen RULER utility enables you to easily find out the size of any item on the screen, for example, the size of a banner or the distance between two points. http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/aa080205a.htm Transparent / pixels / mm. Includes source code. (e...

SAR Image Processor is a image editing program for the PC. Most people will want SAR for its enlargement capabilities ... The unregistered program has disabled file saving and printing, but is, otherwise, fully functional. Once the correct registration code is entered, file saving and printing will...