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I've been a heavy user of the standard non-portable version of MuseScore for about a year and a half, first with version 1.2, and now 1.3. While it writes its settings to AppData\Local\MusE and AppData\Roaming|MusE, MuseScore doesn't use the registry unless you associate files with it. Nevertheless,...

@outskirter: Are you sure that you've got all file associations deselected? Definitely. In fact, the keys appeared in the registry as soon as I started Bandizip for the first time, before I had even called up the associations dialog, much less opened an archive. When I finally accessed that dialog,...

Please note that even though Bandizip writes its settings to its own app folder, version 2.01 build 7558 managed to add a whole bunch of compression formats to my registry automatically on first run, without actually associating them, even though I had not used Bandizip's associations option at all....

I've been using StylePix version 1.8.3 for quite some time, in fact since before I discovered the Portable Freeware Collection. I initially installed StylePix the conventional way, then copied the StylePix application folder to another location on my HD and uninstalled the app. It's now running from...

I've just tried the portable version. It lives up to its name -- it's really fast and easy to use, moreover, no entries are made in the registry unless associations are used. Also, unlike 7-Zip, the option to select a working folder actually works! 7-Zip offers that option too, but ignores it (as me...

Anything portable here goes into the Documents folder on my Windows 7 netbook. I try to keep them categorized, as follows: If the portable app has anything to do with dictionaries or reference material, it goes into its own individual subfolder beneath "Documents\Reference". The main Refer...