/products/building/performance/b/building_performance_blog/posts/installations-are-complicated-thingsIt&#39;s true! Installations are complicated things! Not only do they install the various programs and pieces of data onto your computer, but they may also modify the registry, put components into your Windows System folder, but they will also likely generateen-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/performance/b/building_performance_blog/posts/installations-are-complicated-thingsMon, 19 Sep 2011 15:49:15 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:7ec1569c-bbf7-4834-8f35-2f6fcbf811deDuncan Brown0<p>It would be great, Andreas. However the tech used by the current generation of software relies on COM components, and these require registering. Not to mention licensing control!</p> <p>I&#39;ve looked at the X-plane website - and the program is not truly cross platform in that different installers and runtimes are required for whichever O/S you are using.</p> <img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=183682&AppID=275872&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/performance/b/building_performance_blog/posts/installations-are-complicated-thingsFri, 16 Sep 2011 13:36:56 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:7ec1569c-bbf7-4834-8f35-2f6fcbf811deAndreas Zieritz0<p>Of course it would be very nice if a program would not need to write to the registry at all.</p> <p>Impossible? </p> <p>No. </p> <p>X-Plane is one of the (<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.x-plane.com/">http://www.x-plane.com/</a>). Cross-platform for Windows, Mac and Linux, no registry settings, just run the software and forget everything else.</p> <img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=183682&AppID=275872&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">