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So I spent last night working on testing some applications:
- USB Webserver 8.1 - portable: pass - fortunately still very stealth so there were no issues at all in testing and updating.
- SDExplorer 2.1.1.141 - (integrates Microsoft SkyDrive into the explorer) - portable: fail - the program has no EXE and modifies Explorer.exe in a way I couldn't decipher. Its possible this program could be configured to work portably, but it certainly doesn't seem easy.
- Logviewer Pro - portable: unknown - 3 second nagware - saves to local INI file, but has some odd registry entries (see below)
- Spider Player (kind of a Quintessential Player-lite) - portable: probably - one registry entry type I haven't seen before (see below)
- QueVue (Netflix interface tool) - portable: unknown (see below)
So I need some help deciphering some of the registry changes as to whether or not they qualify as portable. I'm still learning this process and interested in expanding the PFW database with new and different software, as well as working with developers to help them make less registry-dependent software.
Spider Player
- I'm assuming the top one is a file type registry of some type and the second is a hardware-related issue. This is a clean copy of XP so it may do that with any audio program, I'm not sure.
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HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Explorer Bars\{C4EE31F3-4768-11D2-BE5C-00A0C9A83DA1}\FilesNamedMRU\000 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Hardware Profiles\0001\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_1274&DEV_1371&SUBSYS_13711274&REV_02\4&47B7341&0&1088\DirectSound\Speaker Configuration] "Speaker Configuration"=dword:00140004
- A single EXE made me hopeful this was a fully self-contained software. Was not able to log in to a netflix account due to network issues so this test is incompelte, but here's what I got with RegFromApp and RegWatcher:
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Regwatcher test: hkey_users\S-1-5-21-1177238915-362288127-725345543-500\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer RegFromApp test: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache] "C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\{2393A988-6863-4915-B38D-6E5D4E702244}\QueVue.exe"="QueVue
- Just opening and closing, it saves to an INI file in the same directory. Promising. Creates a few registry entries that might still be considered portable:
But when you click the "open log" button:Code: Select all
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU] "MRUListEx"=hex(3):04,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,FF,FF,FF,FF "NodeSlots"=hex(3):02,02,02,02,02,02,02,02,02,02,02,02 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU\4\0] "NodeSlot"=dword:0000000c [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\12\Shell] "FolderType"="Documents"
This doesn't look portable but I gotta ask; the program could be a sysadmin's good friend.Code: Select all
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\LastVisitedMRU] "b"=hex(3):4C,00,6F,00,67,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,2E,00,65,00,78,00,65,\ 00,00,00,43,00,3A,00,5C,00,44,00,6F,00,63,00,75,00,6D,00,65,00,6E,00,74,00,\ 73,00,20,00,61,00,6E,00,64,00,20,00,53,00,65,00,74,00,74,00,69,00,6E,00,67,\ 00,73,00,5C,00,41,00,64,00,6D,00,69,00,6E,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,72,00,61,00,\ 74,00,6F,00,72,00,5C,00,44,00,65,00,73,00,6B,00,74,00,6F,00,70,00,5C,00,52,\ 00,65,00,67,00,57,00,61,00,74,00,63,00,68,00,65,00,72,00,00,00 "MRUList"="ba" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU\log] "a"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Desktop\\RegWatcher\\MJRegWatchKeys.log" "MRUList"="a" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU\*] "d"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Desktop\\RegWatcher\\MJRegWatchKeys.log" "MRUList"="dcba"