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The "mark favourites folder" feature is great, but wouldn't it be even better XYP added these marked folders as links into the Windows favourites folder at the same time? Then these marked folders are also available via the windows standard file open dialogue boxes.

Not good for a portable app.

admin wrote:Not good for a portable app.

Agreed, since (AFAIK) it requires Registry changes and that's something to be avoided.

j_c_hallgren wrote:

admin wrote:Not good for a portable app.

Agreed, since (AFAIK) it requires Registry changes and that's something to be avoided.

I don't know if this is a good approach...

I am with you saying that it is very good not to rely on registry-functions for XY. (It seems good to me not to use it, if it's not really neccessary...)

But if some functions of the system can only be achieved by registry, (we are on windows, you know?) I would not generally preclude that. For "portable app" functions it could be possible to disable registry-modification functions by default or only execute them on explicit request - but I would not block all these possibilities by just saying "Registry? No - that's taboo!"

For this wish, just as an example, it could be a command to copy the XY favorites to win favorites folder. This way only users (and their registries) were affected, who explicitely use this function, other's registries could be kept as "clean" as usual...

But don't get me wrong - this post is not especially related to this favorites-function, it's to the often said "registry-taboo".