Running off Flash drive, no admin priviledges = no registry access

I installed CoH on a 16GB Flash drive. I have no admin privileges on school & work computers, and the game seems to be running ok, I just have to click cancel when the UAC window pops up when running the NCLoader.

I am assuming that, since I've cancelled the UAC request, any registry entries are being ignored. My question is: will this come back to bite me, later?

Thanks for any feedback!

(I searched for one, but if this has been covered in another post, please just move this thread over there, thanks).

Having installed the game on my child's non-admin account, I can verify that without admin rights, the game will not be patched, if needed. Now, if you are patching on another machine periodically, the fact that it skips this on the school machine probably doesn't matter. But if you are not otherwise patching, then the client may become unstable or unplayable at all after a patch.

The admin rights are only used for the updater to be able to have write permission to the folder City of Heroes was installed in (which it doesn't in a standard installation). CoH only writes to your user section of the registry.

As Tenjoy said, since you're running it from a directory where your user has read/write permission (i.e. the flash drive), that won't be a problem. I've actually run/updated CoH as a standard, unelevated user for years at this point, because I gave myself write permission to the installation folder, and back when we still used the "CohUpdater.exe" for updates, overrode the UAC heuristic detection on it to prevent the auto-elevation.

CoH will work just fine... although your zoning time must be total crap, running it off a flash drive!

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Hmm, I don't have it installed in Program Files and it doesn't patch if it's on his account. Maybe I have more restrictions in place on his account than I realized.

Anyway, if it patches without admin rights, then you won't have any issues, I suppose, other than the aforementioned horrible load times.

If he doesn't have write permission to the folder (unlikely if his account didn't create it and it's not in a subfolder of his), then he'd still be unable to patch it. Likely your account is in the 'administrators' group and his isn't.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

what's the simple way to get it onto a flash drive?

Simplest way? Copy the City of Heroes folder onto the flash drive.

Installing NC Launcher to the flash drive, and then CoH to it would be a bit more complicated, but allow the Launcher to update CoH for you.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.