Windows Live Writer Portable
Posted by Cynthia May 24, 2007
TechLifeBlogged has done some work to make Windows Live Writer portable. Call it Windows Live Writer on a stick, USB Windows Live Writer; it’s portable.
Like he says:
Starting to use Windows Live Writer more and more it becomes apparent that it would be really nice to take it with me between computers. If you have more than one blog it is tedious to set everything up every time you need to install again. You have all your blog settings, ping server settings and FTP settings to redo.
As a solution he has made a Windows Live Writer portable launcher. It runs Windows Live Witer in its own environment, as he puts it. That’s one part of the puzzle.
The other part of the puzzle is getting WLW on a stick. This involves copying all WLW files as stored in Program Files to your stick. After that you can uninstall the thing if you want.
To use Windows Live Writer Portable you then simply click on the portable launcher.
Smart solution.
Thanks for the link. The solution isn’t perfect because of the way WLW uses the registry to store your password.
Additionally I’m looking into making the latest version portable. Just downloaded it yesterday and haven’t had a chance to work with it yet.
Scott
That is pretty cool.
Will try it out tonight when I get home.
It would also be handy if one could get a portable version of windows live mail desktop. Wishful dreaming huh?
Just posted version 2.0 of WLW Portable. Here are the details:
http://www.techlifeweb.com/2007/09/08/windows-live-writer-portable-20-now-with-u3/
I picked up a new 4GB SanDisk Cruzer with U3 and installed WLW in minutes.
The developer has a new version out of the loader that uses the SanDisk U3 system.
It all works perfectly.
-Dave Dragon