When to use a Portable Installation?
A portable installation is suitable for people who don't use one main PC or laptop, but
instead use shared computers, such as those in computer rooms, libraries etc. They would like to
use KnowledgeWorkshop, but may not wish to, or be easily able to, install it on each computer they
use.
The Portable Installation option is used to place the program and associated support files
onto a portable storage device such as a USB data plug (thumb drive), USB portable hard drive,
or even a mobile or cell phone with USB accessible storage.
Registration and license activation information is also stored
on the portable device. All this is therefore available to whatever computer the portable device
is plugged into.
The portable installation download comprises a zip file with the program and support files.
Unlike the normal installation, it does not use an installation (.msi file) program. Therefore, you
may be able to use this way of downloading KnowledgeWorkshop if you computer's security settings prevent you
from running installation programs.
Restrictions: The Portable Installation does not run an installation program (.msi file).
Instead you only unzip files and place them into a folder on your portable storage device. It does not
set up program shortcuts (you can do that yourself if you want) and, does not add entries to the
Windows Registry to hook in the Microsoft Outlook and Internet Explorer add-ins which the regular installer would
when installed with administrator privileges.
If your computer has a firewall which restricts which programs can access the Internet, you will have
to configure it to allow the kworkshop.exe executable to access it. Otherwise you may see an error message
in the browser such as "This program cannot display the webpage".
Changing drive letters: If you move the portable storage device from computer to computer, each computer may
assign it a different drive letter. For example, E:, F: and so on. This can cause path names stored in configuration
files to be rendered invalid. The program may
look for on drive E: for a information (as that's where it was last time), yet now it is on F:.
To deal with this you should use the windows command prompt and enter the SUBST command.
If you have been using the USB drive on a computer where it was known as E:, and then you plug it
into another computer where it is known as F:, then run the command "SUBST F: E:\" without the quotes.
This tells windows to treat any references to the F: drive as though they were
referring to E:. You can undo this with the command "SUBST /D F:"
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