Winbox portable to allow logins protection

Is it possible to change the default location of the Winbox.cfg file ?


I’d like to put it in the same directory as winbox, so that i can protect this by a truecrypt volume.


This is important for laptops, to protect from the risk of stolen clients logins.

You might be able to use a symbolic (or hard)-link on Linux, Mac, or Windows. Linux and Mac are easy ‘ln -s …’, and for Windows XP I believe there is a util with Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit (I’ve used it only a few times).

Symbolic links are only supported since Windows Vista.


There is also NTFS junction points since Windows 2000, but they do support only absolute paths on local drives, not pointers for files.


Anyway i’m using XP and it would be really simpler to have such an simple option inside Winbox.


I will try to see if there is a possibility to modify a ressource in the .exe file.

some informations about junctions and symlinks :

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html