"ANCHOR IT!"
Conceptualizing~
Please give me opinions. Should I be using some of my available time on this?
What is "ANCHOR IT!"?
ANCHOR IT is a way to unportable-ize an application. It is an executable that will load the registry entries of a portable app onto a host computer, modify these registry items to point to a particular directory, and disable the application's ability to load and unload registry entries as it normally would. It will, for all intents and purposes, install the portable app. There will, of course, be a way to "uninstall" the application back to its original portable-ness. There are other neat little things it will do, such as place (optional) shortcuts to the desktop and start menu, as well as have a "registry manager" which will keep track of the application's list of registry keys - allowing insertion of new ones, editing and deleting.
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Can't think of a reason to make a portable program un-portable. Do you have one? Otherwise, it would only seem to be a training exercise.
I'll second that. I'd ALWAYS prefer the portable version over the un-portable one. If you want links you can always create them yourself.
But if you want to do it for practice, go for it. The skills might come in handy in the future.
The idea behind it was to give a semi-technical end-user a tool to modify his/her portable application.
For example, installing an expansion.
If the registry entries for the game are deleted from the system as soon as the game exits, and you obviously can't install anything for a game that's currently running, it would be almost impossible to do without a tool that specifically "installed" a portable application.
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