| I hadn't considered that possibility. But, there are probably ways to have both: a (relatively) stock *and* a customized version. At worst case, in separate Win installs. The upgrade notice for NB also says you can have versions 9 & 10 co- existing side by side, so there may be other ways. And then, there are a couple of kits around -- I think VMWare ThinApp Client is probably one of these -- that can spin off portable versions of a great many apps, which are then untethered from a Registry and can go just about anywhere, including to thumb drives. I haven't engineered any of these transformations as yet myself, but I've become a big fan of portable apps, and use a number of them that were crafted elsewhere. (For example, check out http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable ; and many others available at this site.) The main penalty running some apps from a thumb drive is speed . . . but then you can also find that running under an emulator like those you mentioned. When running the portable app from your desktop, this speed hit is often trivial. And the fully standalone nature of it makes having separate versions of the same program quite workable. They should not collide or interfere with each other. (But you may only be able to run one at a time.) Jordan --- On Thu, 5/10/12, Harry Binswanger
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