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Portable apps launch time - slow

I run most of my apps portable, but I don't have the Portable Apps Platform running. I find that many of the apps are slow to launch, particularly VLC, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Skype - probably most of them. I launch them from my local hard drive. My PC does not seem to be short of resources. I'm on Windows 10 but it was the same on 7 and 8.1. Would installing the Platform speed up the launch times?
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If you're running it on your hard drive and it seems slow, this is generally due to using one of the consumer antivirus apps that has issues with compressed EXE/DLL files. We've tweaked our apps like VLC to use less compression (and have a bigger install size) to compensate for the worst offenders. Note that this won't affect most of our apps, including Skype, which are completely unaltered.

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