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karavanm
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Force portable apps to use VPN

Hi everyone,
I want to be able to force portable apps to go through VPN.

I am using PIA which allows split tunneling (i.e. force only some some apps to use VPN) and it generally works fine except for the case of portable apps. For example, I am setting "FirefoxPortable.exe" to go through PIA, but it does not work, it uses my actual IP.

Any ideas what I should do are welcome.

Thanks in advance

Ken Herbert
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Portable wrapper only

FirefoxPortable.exe is just the wrapper that handles the bits that make Firefox portable, there's no network activity coming from there.

You'd need to set your VPN to tunnel firefox.exe.

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wow, very obvious, in

wow, very obvious, in retrospect.

Thanks a lot for your help, it worked. I really appreciate you Smile

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