VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
>> 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.
>
>    It's written to this area:
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RealVNC\VNCViewer4
>
>    So normally there's no problem.


But sometimes there is a problem?
Under what conditions is there a problem?

Mike