Portable Apps as Desktop Equivalent

[Chim]

Okay, so I couldn't think of just the right title for the topic. 
Here's the deal.

I always have my Flash Drive connected.
Is there any way, any Setting that I can configure on my Windows XP so that it would use say ... my IrfanView Portable and Foxit Reader Portable or PDF-XChange Viewer Portable from my Flash Drive as if they were in my Hard Drive?

In other words, if I were to click on a JPEG link or a PDF document link ... have them open up from my Portable Apps?

This way I could uninstall my Desktop versions of IrfanView and Foxit Reader and save some Hard Drive space.

[spg SCOTT]

Hey Chim,

Yes, and no...

I run a lot of the portableapps from my hard drive and so I run into a couple of issues, like you see...
What you want to do is set some file associations, but this can cause problems...it works for some, but not others.

I do use foxit portable - I use open with --> and find Foxitportable.exe this then uses the portable version when opening PDFs...
I can't however do this for browsers for example...

There are a couple of apps in PA.c that can do this, but I haven't used them so can't comment.

Scott

EDIT: Another point, if they are always on the drive, there *may* be problems as I am not sure how windows would handle the drive letter switching - as it does when more drives are plugged in

[Chim]

Sounds like bottom line it leans more towards a no.
I was hoping there was a way to do it where it was totally solid, no restrictions.
Like in your case of Foxit Reader Portable there, I guess you're doing some middleman steps there.
There's apparently no ... just click on a link or Double Click on a PDF Icon and BAMM!  It would open them right up with the Foxit Reader Portable App.

Okay, so we can't have everything.  Doh! 
Thanks for the Info, Scott.

[bob3160]

Chim,
If you used Chrome, you could open a PDF right in the browser without installing any other software.
A PDF reader is built into Chrome.