Ceedo, its not worth it just yet.
I managed to take a deeper look at the Ceedo product which I previously posted on. They have a pretty decent story about wrapping up the application -the whole “Application” or “OS” virtualization thing. From what I can tell it simply monitors all calls to the registry and the the local file system (My Documents, etc.) and re-routes them to the virtualized versions of each. This is one of the bigger pain points of running any application from a portable device; its nice to see them try to solve that. Note that you can still find hundreds of applications which do not rely on either the registry or well known windows paths.
Other than their virtualization technology I dont really see much value to their offering. They have a fancy menu which hides in the system tray if you tell it too, but you can get that for free.
It would be nice to see them produce their virtualization product as a standalone wrapper around other applications. Reg Rapper somewhat solves the whole wrapper around the registry, which does a ½ decent job at it; and its free but I dont see it handling file system calls – not that this is all that important either way.
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CodeSniper said
I received Ceedo with my Lexar Lightning Drive a while back and thought it looked cool. But after trying to use it for a few weeks, I stopped using it altogether in favor of the simpler PStart.exe menu. Ceedo was just too mouse-centric for me. I love me some hotkeys and never could quite get Ceedo to behave as I desired. At this point, there are too many sites like PortableApps.com that offer lightweight, portable-attuned versions of most popular applications. Also, I think the U3 platform is the real future for more complex portable apps that need the registry and other infrastructure that Ceedo provides.
NotCeedoEmployee said
Did you forget that Ceedo also virtualizes the entire windows user directories? Without using Argo I have been able to make many apps install and work within Ceedo, without installing a single file on the host platform. You can wait till Reg Rapper does that. I am sticking with Ceedo.
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killerookami said
I tested Ceedo personal 2.5, it's a great product so I decided to buy. I almost immediately received an email stating my drive could not be licensed because their registration software could not read my vendor and product ID from my hard drive. so I was told I could either register another drive or get a refund. I don't have another drive so I asked for a refund, from that point on all my emails were ignored. I didn't get another response until I filed a grievance through PayPal. I'm still trying to get my money back. If you are going to buy from them, I would only use PayPal because otherwise you may get screwed. You can give them your money but you may not get anything but an email in return.
killerookami said
Ceedo does vitalization better than any other program I've used (except maybe Moka5 portable VMware.) programs install and run almost flawlessly across the board. However... The licensing scheme does not support all drives. If your drive is not supported, you can pay for a license but Ceedo tech will refuse to give you one and ignore all requests for a refund. You better pay through PayPal or you will never get your money back because you will have to make a claim with PayPal.