VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:

> Ronin Vladiamhe wrote:
>
>> VNC Viewer (only) does not appear to be an installed program.
>
> VNC viewer, as it is provided by RealVNC, is indeed a standalone 
> executable file.
>
>> (1)With that being true, can the viewer (only) be installed on a CD/USB drive and used successfully?
>
> Yes, you could run the executable wherever you like.  But keep in mind 
> that the viewer writes into the registry some config and connection info 
> (well, I'm talking about the Windows version).


If the user of the Windows machine does not have administrator permissions 
and is not allowed to install software, does this mean that VNCviewer 
cannot run from the thumb drive?  I'm thinking that the answer is yes 
because it won't be able to create the registry entries.

Mike