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.

- 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
• Automatically skips <4K files (no space savings)
• Add inclusions/exclusions using PortableApps.com Format
• Compression of DLL, EXE, ZIP, JAR, IRC, PYD and BINs in all directories
• Automatically skip launcher if selecting PortableApps.com Format apps' base directory
• Automatically excludes Visual C++ runtimes and Qt image handlers
• 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: 2012-04-09
• System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, WINE on Linux/UNIX
• License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
• Source Code: PortableApps.com AppCompactor (included), UPX, 7-Zip
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): d0b884c51d938d886f54d618f9eefd1e