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Killing app-namePortable.exe after launch

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nerdweed
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Killing app-namePortable.exe after launch

As app-namePortable.exe is supposedly only a launcher, why don't we terminate it after launching.

J Neutron
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Housekeeping

It also cleans up after the app-namePortable.exe finishes running.

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nerdweed
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Ok. Thanks for this.

Ok. Thanks for this.

Just because the scientists didn't prove it; doesn't mean that I am wrong !!!

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yeah

You shouldn't really kill the process since, it backs up settings on the host computer, and puts the portable app's settings on the host. If you kill the the launcher, then you will leave your settings on the computer you used and worse, you will lose your settings and the local installation's settings as well.

If you have an already-portable Portable App, then you don't have to worry about leaving data on the host, but you will still lose any new changes.

So whenever a program is not responding, kill the base app not the launcher (like firefox.exe not FirefoxPortable.exe), because the launcher will still clean up the app, and restore any local settings even if the internal app is terminated.

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