"march5" wrote in message
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> I have ab Sandisk Cruzer Micro with 4GB. I added U3 to it. My question is,
> now, you can only run U3 software on the stick. Not even portable ones. U3
> software comes as an *.u3p. It has its own platform to be run on
> Launchpad.
> Can you convert Office to U3P portablity?
Probably not. The reason, Office software when installed writes an enormous
amount of data to the Operating System registry which "ties" it to that
individual computer. Without that information available to the program it
will fail to run.
From one support site for U3 "U3 works best for simple programs and
applications with few support files that are U3-aware, or at least rely
minimally on Windows Registry, so that the apps can take full advantage of
U3 platform, although you can add as many supporting DLLs and other EXEs as
you need."
Note the phrase rely minimally on Windows Registry. If you can get it to
work great but don't bet the farm on it.