On Tue, 9 May 2006 17:10:21 -0400 "Rodrigo Cortés" <roco3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A) "Possible" is a BIG word. So is "anywhere". If you could narrow > > these two down a bit it might help answer your question. > > > possible mean "how to do it" > anywhere mean "a pc with a windows os" > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your > friend Rodrigo with Windows I'm not sure how much the registry would have to be edited (if at all) to run the same postgrsql installation from windows machines A B and C. I strongly doubt that you could just walk up to a strange machine, plug in your USB drive, and away you go. Some years ago when I was still running Windows at home I recall there was a discussion on the cygwin mailing lists about running cygwin from a cd drive. You might want to check out their archives and see if you could use that information. http://www.cygwin.com/ Good luck. John Purser -- You will never know hunger.