Windows Portable???

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 08/03/2010 19:02, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> I believe U3 is a reference to a removable media system where simply by attaching it to the computing device, it would enable software on the U3 device to become dynamically installed in the OS, and when removed the software would be dynamically uninstalled, so to speak.
>
> Like any powerful tool, it can also be used for harm rather than good. I am not sure what the safeguards are. I know of a friend who has a USB device that when plugged into a computer silently downloads all the serial numbers and the passwords it can find on a Windows box. Later he can run software on the USB device to crack the Windows passwords (not a hard feat these days as MD5 has been quite crackable for some time).
>
>    

Funny sort of 'friend'. . .

In the RunRev Studio 4 standalone settings there is an option for U3 
something-or-other.

Presumably (?????) the good folk at RunRev have put the U3 'thing' there 
because they felt there
was some demand for it: after all they I don't suppose they went to the 
effort of putting that there
just for the fun of it.

Also on the downloads page:  
http://www.runrev.com/downloads/all-downloads/full-list/

there is this:  "The U3 download allows you to create programs on a U3 
flash drive system. "

In the RunRev User Guide there is this:

"Compatible Build your application for the U3 smart platform. For more
information on U3 see http://www.u3.com. For more documentation on
building U3 applications using Revolution, see the Resources/Examples/U3
Documentation.pdf file within your Revolution distribution folder. "

"U3 Documentation.pdf" is 'buried':  4.0.0-gm-1/Resources/Examples/U3 
Documentation.pdf

Reading the document seems to suggest that a U3 USB drive does carry 
something rather
similar to Windows Portable.

This seems to say that one can build a Windows system on a USB stick 
(rather like the USB
Linux systems) with 1 or more RunRev standalones rolled up in it so that 
one can bung the
USB stick into any PC USB port, boot from it into one's very own Mini 
Windows and run one's
standalones without having to alter any OS on the PC's hard drive(s).

As the whole thing sounds horribly complicated I cannot see myself 
getting into it right
this minute . . .   :)