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Have any of you guys ever heard of Portable Apps?

They are programs that you carry around on a USB storage device, that can be used on any computer (running Windows ) without requiring installation. Has this been done before to Dink/FreeDink?

you are such a cabbage brained no0b

you can do that with just about any software for windows

I've run dink off a usb - works fine

No. No you can't. It all depends on the kind of software and if it installs anything during installation, if there's an installer at all.

Anyway, Dink is portable by nature, I believe. You can just copy the game anywhere and it'll work.

There are USB drives wich can run installed software from any computer as long as it is installed on the USB drive. They're called U3 something...

Portable registry?

Portable registry? Now THAT sounds useful for any of these applications that are programmed badly enough to REQUIRE registry keys.

I use to own one of the U3 drives, they come with anti-spyware, and have a button that strongly resembles a start menu to themselves, and yes it has a portable regestry, but windows cant read it. U3 can though.

Dink uses at least 2 registry keys, one for associating the .dmod extension with DFarc, and another in Hkey_local_machine to identify the Dink directory. This is probably how WinDinkEdit\ knows where to look.

I believe 1.08 ditched the registry in favor of an INI file, instead. In any case, it'll read that file before the registry, and you don't even need it to play games. The extension association is irrelevant for portable versions of applications.

I believe it had the .ini file before the registry. A common cause of not seeing any D-Mods appear in DinkFrontEnd used to be the nonexistance of dinksmallwood.ini in C:\Windows. Running dink.exe would create this .ini file and solve the problem.

Wait, so it uses the registry in the new version? That doesn't make much sense, most applications evolve from using the registry to something better (like storing information in the AppData folder)...