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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

SRWare Iron + AppCompactor

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Submitted by sxshaffer on May 2, 2014 - 9:24pm

Is SRWare Iron compressed using AppCompactor?

If so, which compression method was used to do so without causing problems with the performance or operation of the browser? I've tried compacting other random programs, just to see if it would work. It does compact, but I'd get error messages when the program would open or after doing certain things with the browser.

Developing a Portable App.

Submitted by gandalf97 on April 29, 2014 - 1:05pm

I am thinking about developing a new PortableApp but I come from a .NET/Visual Studio background. I looked at the guide but what I am really interested in is what tools and language people find best. If I need to learn new tools and a new language, I want to make the best choice I can. Thanks!

I need help with application that installs driver

Submitted by Peter8087 on April 26, 2014 - 7:11am

I am trying to make portable the program Hotspot Shield: filehippo.com/download_hotspot_shield

I created the portable launcher and when i start it it starts the program and the program icon appear on the system tray, but if i try to connect to the VPN network it doesn't work. Also if i try to go to the properties settings it doesn't work too.
The program installs a network driver and i think this is the reason why it doesn't work properly.

This is my launcher.ini file:

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=HotspotShield\bin\HSSCP.exe
WorkingDirectory=%PAL:AppDir%\HotspotShield

Is possible another file in the root?

Submitted by jviure on April 26, 2014 - 3:57am

Hi! I'm Jordi from Spain. This is my first post, hi to all!!

I need something I don't know if it's posible. I've downloaded the Chromium portable (and the portableapp installer too) and now I want to re-package Chromium but with the difference that the file ChromiumPortable.ini will be in the root folder (I want for example to set the homepage or to disable plugins installation... and I think the unique way is with the ChromiumPortable.ini in the root folder as says the help.html), customize the portable app. It is posible? I've tried to modify the AppInfo.ini with:

mIRC Portable

Submitted by Nafez on April 22, 2014 - 9:55am

Application: mIRC
Category: Internet
Description: You can chat around a world or your friends with Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

Download mIRC Portable 7.32 Dev Test 1 [2.01MB download / 2.0MB installed]
Link Removed
(MD5: AF452EBB76ACB49906687820D03A50B4)

WinRAR Portable

Submitted by Nafez on April 18, 2014 - 6:58am

Many people use .zip and .rar for extract or keep document in this file .This is Winrar Portable.You can use on flash drive .You can take any where.Click this link for download WinRAR Portable [illegal download removed by mod JTH] .This WinRAR in beta version .If have any problem please email

MEGA Sync Portable

Submitted by Nafez on April 18, 2014 - 4:57am

This is my first portable app.
I create because I want to save storage computer.
I have cloud app is called MEGA Sync.This is cloud storage on website and sync in computer.I create it portable.If you don't have account you can make one their website https://mega.co.nz or on application.You can download in this link [link removed by mod JTH]. This app is development test .File MD5 :7C06D9B724BA405DF43DF0006CAB134B .If want to email to nalnul109@gmail.com.

Suggestion for online.paf Installer

Submitted by kolpotoru on April 10, 2014 - 5:34pm

The online.paf installer fails to install when internet connection is slow. So these types of installers should give user a option to download the needed file using external download manager by displaying the download link when it fails to download the file. Then user can place the downloaded file next to the paf installer and run it again to install.

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