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Personal Desktop can be run in Portable mode, that is, from a single directory without being installed.

Portable mode is currently only supported on Microsoft Windows.

 Limitations

When running Personal Desktop in Portable mode, these features are not available:

  • Automatic PKCS#11 browser integration
  • Browser plug-ins
  • CSP operating system and browser integration
  • Plugout
 How to use Portable mode
  1. Place all of Personal Desktop's binary files (those found in the bin or bin64 directory), and the global configuration file (Personal.cfg) in the same directory, that is, not in any subdirectories.
  2. Use personal.exe, from that directory, to run Personal Desktop.
Example
<directory>/
### crdchari.dll
### crdgemcl.dll
### #
### iD2ppa.dll
### lng_cze.dll
### lng_dan.dll
### #
### Personal.cfg
### personal.dll
### personal.exe
### prfstd.dll
### scrstd.dll
### tokenapi.dll

For PKCS#11 functionality, personal.dll (or personal64.dll) can be loaded. See Personal Desktop PKCS#11 for details.

An installation of Personal Desktop, of the same or a different version, may or may not reside on the same machine.

 Configure Portable mode

When running in Portable mode, Personal Desktop's configuration file (Personal.cfg) shall exist in the same directory as the binary files. User configuration, soft token store and logging functions the same way as with an installed Personal Desktop.

To turn off use of the user configuration, set the following in the configuration file:

[Personal]
Portable=1

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