install p2p app on flashdrive possible?

[iddibhai]

assuming i have a large enough usb based flash drive (256 or 512mb) can i install a p2p (or other smallish sized) app on it? i want to use broadband connections where available to swap car meet/track vids. Admin policy on the computers prevents users from installing apps on the hard drive. or will i have to just keep a zipped copy of the app and "install" it each time to the usb drive and use it? thanks. btw, the admin knows what i'm doing and doesnt care, just can't save to local disk.

 

[Eugene]

Depends on your OS. Windows OS most apps write things to the registry and various dll's in the %systemroot% directory.

 

[iddibhai]

xp pro and home.

 

[paulr]

How about bring a laptop to the swap meet, with a wifi card. Then you can swap stuff over wifi, using whatever software you want.

 

[iddibhai]

expensive way to do it, but yea that would work /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Eugene]

Maybe bittorrent since its a very small p2p app, but pretty much anything under windows will leave traces in other directories.

 

[idleprocess]

It all depends on the P2P app. Most write stuff to the registry, but some will run standalone with static links to the libraries they need.