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You can't have a portable Windows Live Messenger because is heavily relies on registry entries. You can use alternative clients (like GAIM which you have come across) otherwise I wouldn't bother using anything else. Web Messengers are ideal if the network you are working on doesn't block the websites .

at college they blocked off the webmessengers (using the complete webmessenger block details documented somewhere on the web...) Some ones I can sign in on but then can't do anything others are completely blocked off

yes, web messengers are an option... but to me, the last one

one thing i don't quite understand: why you people always talk about the "live" versions of MSN?. I still have the 7.5 version, and i have no intention to update it (at least, until uncle Bill force me to)... I've installed the Live version, and i have to say, i didn't like it ... I don't think it actually has anything to do with the portable side of these apps, because both versions relay a lot on windows' register....

Anyway, i'm still using Gaim when i'm on my laptop. Haven't been able to test the other options (that version of WLM that ppl say it actually works ok), had my mind on other things

Thanks again for your time, ideas, and inputs

Cheers all

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Originally posted by absorbation
You can't have a portable Windows Live Messenger because is heavily relies on registry entries. You can use alternative clients (like GAIM which you have come across) otherwise I wouldn't bother using anything else. Web Messengers are ideal if the network you are working on doesn't block the websites .

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You can build portable apps of WLM/Messenger.

However you need to use an application such as Thinstall/MojoPac which are designed to "virtualize" the application and intercept any registry or file calls and redirect them to the appropriate place.

Thinstall - http://www.thinstall.com/
MojoPac - http://www.mojopac.com

i have a question... is there any way to know for sure if a program access / modify the register?..

i mean, is it out there a software than can analize if a program can in fact access the register?...

that'd be lovely, but i can't find it... i don't even know if it actually exist something like that...

i've several versions of portables msn, but don't want to try them yet on my laptop...

Try RegMon for that

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Originally posted by Mike
Try RegMon for that

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That's just great!

Thanks you so much for your input!, that was exactly what i was looking for... i'll try all the versions i have with that soft, and hopefully, at least one will be really portable...

Something is telling me that the log will be very very long

I will keep updated about this one

Thanks again

well, excuse me for this double posting thing... but that's the only way the thread will look active

i've tested all the "portable" versions of msn i have, i have even tested the gaim version with the RegMon... And to my surprise, there's a LOT of exchange between the application, and the registry.

basically, there's a lot of reading and such things, but there are just a few "create" and "setvalue" too... those aren't majority, but there is some registry modification.

i think most of that traffic is "normal", and it's not something that will leave some kind of trace behind...

even gaim, i was surprised to see that it generate a lot of input / ouput registry movement.

what i've noticed, is that the versions made from MSN standard installation, generate more exchange; and the Gaim version, fewer lines.

the thing is, that this version of gaim, ain't that stable... in fact, it's pretty unstable sometimes. I read somewhere, that the final version will be released any time now.

So, there you go, that's it.

Thanks you all for your time, and inputs

i set up a http tunnel and used trillian