checking removable drives

[Richard Gaskin]

Chipp Walters wrote:
> 
> 
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> And if we do ignore that for portable apps, assuming we'd like to ship 
>> a single app for both portable and installed use, how can we know 
>> we're running installed so that we could write the file association 
>> entry to the registry as customers would expect for a 
>> hard-drive-installed app?
> 
> 
> And we're back to the original question :-)
> "I'd like to be able to determine if an app is running from a removable 
> drive."

Only somewhat.  Aside from the ability to launch the app by 
double-clicking a file, every other aspect of universal portability 
seems to be pretty simple with Rev.

> Of course, Windows users are IMO more likely to launch the app first, 
> then the doc.

We can hope so, but most of my apps support documents and my customers 
would kill me if I removed that option.

Alternatively, I could safely provide that for 95% of my customers by 
writing the reg entry only when the boot volume is the same as the 
volume the app is running on.

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