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InstallWatch and InstallRite are these good tools for making an application portable? Any advice please.....I would like to make MS Word portable

Wow..that sounds like a challenge.
I don't know these tools and can't tell you much about them, but you'll surely do better by starting with something smaller and easier.
And trying Word when you know it well already.

BTW installation isn't everything. I.e. some tools create registry keys on startup, when you save settings for the first time etc. So you should test it well not only during installation, but also with all possible kinds of work.
Yeah, that posses some problem with MS Word, I guess that practically you won't have it well tested.

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If I'm making a portable for a software that requires registry present, what can I do to make it portable?

Any software can locate the registry entries of any application?
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Try this.

O it doesn't work. It can only records registry traffic of the application, not all registry keys are recorded.

Try RegShot first under 2 stage..for installation and app running.
This must be done inside a clean Virtual OS.
Then apply RegFromApp for other possibly changes.
Gather all info together and make an analyze.

I believe many peoples here can do this better than me.
They are pro and a real programmer.
But maybe they have no such time to help you.

Depends on how you use them.

Installwatch is very handy if you just want to test a portables or a program for system leaks/changes or just want to know what exactly it is doing that you cant see.
It does this by taking system snapshots and recording changes made after an app is executed and closed.You can also export registry changes or just compare.Basically a good discovery tool.
Its very similar to Systracer and the like.

Installwatch is incorporated into InstallRite so thats really all you need.

InstallRite is an easy way to make "silent install" or just automated installs.
It takes a system snapshot..then records everything you do during the install of a program..then puts all the system changes into an "install kit"

So if you set a program the same way everytime then this just saves you time from filling in boxes and checking user agreements.

However you can also use it to glean registry "Tweaks" by taking a sys snapshot..change whatever..then instead of installing something just export the registry files.Edit the registry file accordingly and you have a custom reg Tweak.You have to be creative and it helps to be familiar with the system registry so that you know what you can and cannot exclude.

I use installrite to make silent install of programs I want to reduce in size cause after you install them you can slim them down to bare components,modify whatever you dont like, and even upx them and then build your installkit,
turning bloatware into reasonably sized installers.

Then run the new installer with JauntePE.exe to create a portable.

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for someone new to programming i would recommend autoit, however another choice is autohotkey they also have a very active community. you can make apps portable using any of the three mentioned scripting languages. each autoit, and autohotkey has its advantages, and i use both depending upon the task at hand.

may not be possible ~ will you are running as administrator?

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