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A highly interesting topic, but which sometimes gets too theoretically involved with concepts. I shall try to revive it from a more practical approach. In practice, a portable but non-stealth app that writes to the registry can be worse than one that needs installation, because there is no uninstall...

Well, I have a naive query. It seems to me that just to test whether an app is portable, you don’t need anything. Just double click it and see if (UAC and) an installer appears. If it does, it’s not portable and you can block the installer. Alternatively and better still, try to run it from a USB st...

Thanks for the quick reply Midas, it’s a coincidence that I saw the app I cited as an example in a comment by you. :) Your above comments merit the following clarifications. Actually, I did not have the impression this is a commercial site, but I’m sure its popularity would help meet costs, as I see...

I find the present procedure for enriching the database with new apps (proposal, private invisible entries, members ranks votes, popularity score etc) unnecessarily complex and off-putting. Such complexity is rendered further meaningless by the fact that an app can radically change with an update, b...

OK, so I’ve read the FAQ and I’m still of the same opinion – in fact I had already read the procedure for including apps in the database, and that’s why I commented that “a more liberal policy should be adopted”. Sometimes it’s better to be new with a fresh, unbiased approach rather than preconditio...

It looks like a handy tool to have around. Pity that it writes to the registry - a very annoying habit that largely defeats the purpose of portability and spoils many otherwise excellent programs. And again I notice that searching the database for music2pc delivers nothing. It seems to me that a mor...

I engage in this necromancy to inform that, having tried all alarm clocks offered by TPFC, I consider this as the best. Used as alarm clock, it has the right facilities, intuitive use and I haven't discovered any bugs. It is worth putting up with the one empty registry entry that it writes. But stra...

Thanks again joby_toss for the above clarification. But I have mixed feelings about using the Universal Extractor, as it writes to the registry: "it creates some registry entries for itself and for some of the programs embedded". This seems to defeat the purpose, since registry entries mad...

Thanks guys, I hadn't realized the black word "extract" was clickable and I now feel like a n00b.

Would it be valid to say that apps made portable thru UniExtract will also be stealth, or not necessarily?

This should be a trivial question for those familiar. Sometimes the download (from this site) is not a ZIP or RAR file but a setup or installer. Example: 1Time, claimed to be portable and stealth: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1567 The instructions ask to extract it to a folder. But t...