Is Shareaza portable?
Is Shareaza portable?
In Shareaza forums i have read a post saing it is possible make a portable Shareaza if you install it without multi user support, that way all Shareaza files will be in the shareaza folder. Is it true? I hope you to answer to me.
I have Shareaza installed on my machine and it stores it's settings in the following location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Shareaza\Shareaza
I can't remember if I selected multi-user or not but I don't think that this would make any difference, since the "current user" area of the registry is for, surprise, the current user.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Shareaza\Shareaza
I can't remember if I selected multi-user or not but I don't think that this would make any difference, since the "current user" area of the registry is for, surprise, the current user.
Hold on to your hats, it might be in the pipeline. Huzzah!
Re: Shareaza (multi p2p netwpork client).
Very old topic update: following up the recent attention devoted to BitTorrent clients, it may be high time Shareaza is brought to the limelight again...
Shareaza went through a rough patch some years past (e.g., see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareaza#History and http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=5), due to the OSS project being highjacked by shady entities (beware of any plus or premium versions you may find), but it seems it has since regained its footing -- file-sharing specialist site Slyck.com user poll ranks it a least as high as uTorrent (see http://www.slyck.com/programs.php).
Unfortunately, PortableApps.com runs to portabilize Shareaza went nowhere (see http://portableapps.com/search/node/shareaza). I couldn't find much info on Shareaza portability either, apart from some install path troubleshooting instructions, detailing a couple of registry keys (see http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/mediawi ... nstallPath) and a full denial from its forums (http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/phpbb/v ... php?t=1065), so assume it's not portable -- further testing/tips would be highly welcome...
Shareaza is also mentioned at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=15895.
Further reading:
Shareaza went through a rough patch some years past (e.g., see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareaza#History and http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=5), due to the OSS project being highjacked by shady entities (beware of any plus or premium versions you may find), but it seems it has since regained its footing -- file-sharing specialist site Slyck.com user poll ranks it a least as high as uTorrent (see http://www.slyck.com/programs.php).
Unfortunately, PortableApps.com runs to portabilize Shareaza went nowhere (see http://portableapps.com/search/node/shareaza). I couldn't find much info on Shareaza portability either, apart from some install path troubleshooting instructions, detailing a couple of registry keys (see http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/mediawi ... nstallPath) and a full denial from its forums (http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/phpbb/v ... php?t=1065), so assume it's not portable -- further testing/tips would be highly welcome...
- [url]http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/?id=tour[/url] author wrote:[Shareaza] can harness the power of up to four separate peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, including eDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2 (G2). Not only that, but Shareaza is completely free and won't show any annoying ads or pop-ups. It won't install any unwanted third party programs that can wreak havoc with your computer. No spyware, no registration, no "paid version".
Shareaza is also mentioned at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=15895.
Further reading:
Re: Is Shareaza portable?
Most Gnutella clients have been abandoned long time ago (Cabos, Gnucleus, KCeasy, Phex), FrostWire is no longer a Gnutella client, so we have only Shareaza, gtk-gnutella, PeerProject and WireShare (former LimeWire Pirate Edition). I doubt whether WireShare and PeerProject will ever get any updates so only Shareaza and gtk-gnutella seem to be still in active development. I have tested both and I prefer Shareaza which is rather stable (I have had some occasional crashes- by the way Shareaza has a built-in crash reporter), feature-rich and has a nice skinnable GUI. Yet there is one thing I don't like about Shareaza- its indexing is terribly slow compared to other peer-to-peer programs. I would love to see some more networks supported (Ares, Soulseek) but this very unlikely to happen.