[Larsmark]

Hello

I don't have enough spare time at the moment to see the following through it does how ever sound great in theory,

the manual installation of Itunes on the PC could be eliminated how you ask??

2 ways
1. some quick googling revealled the instructions for a unattended install of Itunes, you Qbatch is run,

2. would be the perferable way
answer this question, what does the installer do to the computer???? ,,

Answer is,,,,
the installer creates registry entries and places certain files and various directories IE windows\system32\*.dll

if someone was to monitor the installation of Itunes/quicktime with a program like "regmon" and collect a list of what registry keys are created and what files are placed in the Windows Directory. then when the portable app is first opened it transfers the required regkeys and files without a fullblown install,

as neither Itunes or Quicktime NEEDS to load with Windows this would create a truly powerfully portable music store.

Also for anybody like Ben B who has extra USB devices that may interfere
I would suggest you do the following

edit iTunes_Mobile.bat
replace
<code>
echo starting iTunes
start \iTunes_programs\iTunes.exe
</code>

with
<code>
echo starting iTunes
subst M: %~dp0iTunes_programs
start /w iTunes.exe
subst M: /D
exit
</code>

this extra code creates a new drive entry in this case M drive mapped to the Itunes Programs Directory on your USB drive please Change M to another available drive letter

Covent: this will leave a Dosbox open while Itunes is in use and closes when you close Itunes after removing referance to M: this window could be hiden with the help of a App called cmdow the other varables that hae been changed sgould probly be reset here also