This is the license. I tried just copying the installation directory to another machine and got:-
"The application failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect"
It comes with a postinst.bat to create the explorer context menus which could be run by the papps installer.
I tried putting the dir in the same location as I originally installed it with no joy. So I guess we need to extract the .exe to see what it installs.I wouldn't call any of this disassembling or reverse engineering.
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Okay I've tried a few things, I found the registry entries that referred to the application data, modified them to match a different directory and copied the contents. No joy still the same message. I found the installer entries too, copied them, still no joy.
Can't seem to extract the .exe file but my Windows skills are pretty poor these days. Next thing I can think of is that sysinternals app that's a bit like strace for windows to see what it's checking..
I've emailed the developer to see if he can help.
Okay I tried process monitor and it doesn't show what is failing to be accessed. I used universal extractor to extract the installshield package and then msiexec to extract the msi.
This does list some windows\systems files as well as the application data which I've now copied over. Still doesn't startup though.
pretty much out of ideas now.
Okay I've found an event id when it runs. Generated Activation context failed. 59.
Which appears to be caused by an application trying to run without all it's runtime dependencies. However what that missing dependency is I don't know.
Okay looks like msvcm80 needs to be packaged up with the portable app. Not sure how one would go about doing this, presumably you'd need the source to change the library lookup paths. Other portable apps seems to do this. Lets hope the developer can help out.