Update: This article is old. A newer article on this feature is available:
http://whizfolders.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/04/portable-software/
Old article:
WhizFolders 6.1 has a new menu operation on the Tools menu that allows you to copy WhizFolders to a portable (USB) drive. However, it needs a portable key which you can get from the special support web site support.whizfolders.com. Once copied this way, WhizFolders runs from the USB drive and overcomes most of the limitations mentioned in an earlier article: Running WhizFolders from a USB drive
A few features do not work when running this way, for example, the spelling-checker.
Does WhizFolders use the registry of the computer the USB drive? It only uses the current user area of the registry temporarily. Actually, it loads your settings from the usb drive into registry and when exiting, stores the settings back to the usb drive and then deletes that part of the registry. This works fine except on Windows Vista where it can’t use the features to restore and store from the usb drive. In that case, it leaves your settings on the computer. If you want it to be able to restore, store and delete the registry on Windows Vista then you must run it as administrator. In a future version, we will even remove this requirement to use the registry temporarily.
