PortableApps.com AppCompactor

the easy way to shrink your apps

PortableApps.com AppCompactor™ allows you to easily compress applications to decrease size on disk and increase performance when running from slow media like flash drives. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can work with your apps anywhere. It's intended primarily for developers, but advanced users will also find it useful. We use this same tool for nearly all of our apps. Please be sure to read the support details below before using.

- Support PortableApps.com's development and hosting

PortableApps.com AppCompactor easily integrates with the PortableApps.com Suite™.

Features

PortableApps.com AppCompactor allows you to easily compress application to decrease size on disk and increase performance when running from a slow media (like flash drives). It features:

• Proven UPX binary compressor
• 7-Zip compression of archives
• Multiple compression levels
• Automatic testing of compressed files
• Automatic skipping of <4k files (saves no space)
• Compression of DLL, EXE, ZIP, JAR, IRC, PYD and BINs in all directories
• Automatically skip launcher if selecting PortableApps.com Format apps' base directory
• Saving up to 50% or more installed space of many apps
• Faster application starts from flash drives
• The same technology we use in OpenOffice.org Portable, Pidgin Portable, GIMP Portable and more!

Please mention us and link back here if you use our AppCompactor in your releases as a way of saying thanks. We appreciate it!

Support

For help getting PortableApps.com AppCompactor up and running, visit:

• Downloading a Portable App
• Installing a Portable App
• Using a Portable App
• Upgrading a Portable App

• Don't compress NSIS launchers (FirefoxPortable.exe, etc), they'll break
• It's best to have the app you're compressing reside on a hard drive (at least temporarily) rather than a flash drive to improve performance and decrease writes to your flash drive
• You can disable the Welcome screen or have the console window stay by editing the settings.ini in the Data directory
• Only NRV2E should be used for PortableApps.com Releases (including development tests and pre-releases) unless it's a small app (one exe and a dll or two) and very easy for you to test every feature and function on every Windows OS.
• Always back up your files before using this tool as it will not work with all applications.

Download Details

• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller)
• Date updated: 2009-04-23
• System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7, WINE on Linux/UNIX
• License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
• Source Code: launcher source (included), UPX source, 7-Zip source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 5ba18bd170c491dcb178e10648f469e0