VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

[Mike Miller]

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

> Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> 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


According to Microsoft...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/51211.mspx?mfr=true

"A new HKEY_CURRENT_USER subtree is created each time a user logs on."

But the VNCviewer stores information more permanently.  For example, it 
remembers where I have previously connected.  So it must at least try to 
create other registry keys.

Also according to Microsoft:

"The HKEY_CURRENT_USER subtree does not contain any data. It just stores a 
pointer to the content of..."

So if something is stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER it is also being written 
somewhere else.

The reason I am interested in this is that some friends in another 
department have a very heavy-handed IT staff that won't allow them to 
install any programs.  I'm wondering if there is no way around this 
restriction.

Mike