Citavi

[Emka]

citavi reference management and knowledge organization, a very powerful and useful tool that I have recently discovered and started to use to catalogue scientific and job related documents.
http://www.citavi.com/en/
It offers the option to install on a pendrive, so that it saves projects in the application folder. However, I discovered it writing stuff to the registry. I copied the application from the pendrive to a non-system partition on my laptop and uninstalled it from the pendrive. It works portably, but it is not stealth. It left the keys in the registry and recreates them if you delete them. It creates file type associations and recreates them if you delete them. It also creates a directory each in ProgramData and AppData\Roaming (Win7x64).
Has someone any experience with this application and would know if it is possible to make it really portable and stealth? Would someone know how to write a launcher or wrapper? (I have also posted a feature request in the official forums.)

PS: Would anyone know of an at least vaguely similar stealth alternative?

[Emka]

Bibliographix (http://www.bibliographix.de, homepage German only, program UI can be switched to English) seems to be a rather similar alternative. The installer can be extracted. Renaming stick.inix to stick.ini will prevent it from storing data in the user folder. You can also do that manually by adjusting the paths in the various program settings (a right kerfuffle however). It creates file associations though and a lot of ShellBags in the registry.

[I am Baas]

English Website http://home.mybibliographix.com/

English manual @ http://www.manual9.mybibliographix.com/index.php

[Emka]

Of course there is JabRef (Java based though), and there is a DevTest of a PAF-launcher available: http://portableapps.com/node/26968

BTW, I have decided to export my citavi made catalogue of documents to excel files and to finally remove citavi from my computer. It was sure useful for cataloguing itself, but just for looking up what I have it was too heavy and unstealthy...