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Tips and Tricks

This is a topic about some tips for how to make PortableApps.com a bit better for you.

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Anything is a portable app!

To turn a regular application into portableapps format. all you have to do is create a new text document in its root folder and include the following:

[Format]
Type=PortableApps.comFormat
Version=version number

[Details]
Name=(Title of the app)
Publisher=(Whoever made this app)
Homepage=whereyoufoundtheapp.com
Category=Graphics & Pictures, programming, office, etc.
Description=Here is where you write the description for the app.

[License]
Shareable=true
OpenSource=false
Freeware=true
CommercialUse=true

[Version] (note that these numbers must be above any of the other apps'. good idea to start at 5).
PackageVersion=5.2.7.0
DisplayVersion=(The above simplified)5.2.7

[Control]
Icons=1
Start=applicationname.exe

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App

I thought that the appinfo.ini goes under App\Appinfo.
But yeah, that's a great tip. Useful for folders.

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Could you explain that a bit more?

I don't understand what that is supposed to do.

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Supposed to Do

This is a config file that the menu reads. This thing is meant to launch executables, but can launch anything that you can assign a file/folder to.

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Please note that, while this

Please note that, while this does add the program to the menu, it does NOT make it portable. It may still leave settings and such behind.

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Good Idea

(@John: Let's turn this into a wiki page.)
I made a Current Projects folder, which is quite useful when you have quite a few things going and your drive is HUGE (I want to install Everything Portable, but I'm not sure I want to undertake reformatting the drive to NTFS).
I also use Q10, makes a great writing tool, with a PortableApps version, but it seems that the developer has abandoned it (any good alternatives?).
I also have a resources folder for commonly used stuff (like templates--OO.o is incredibly slow, so I'm forced to use MS Office [which I have to admit, the Ribbon is great]).
I also use the AutoMemScan utility, which is very useful for the lazy, but could be a bit better integrated (nobody cares about my mod).
I feel like I just wasted 15 minutes of my life, but it was a great 15 minutes :P.

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I was talking to him on irc,

I was talking to him on irc, and he said that there's gonna be a community section of the site with a wiki.

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Long Time Ago

I brought that up a couple of weeks ago.
IMO, there's a difference between community sections and wikis.

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blockquote>OliverKthere's

OliverKthere's gonna be a community section of the site with a wiki.

Section with wiki. With a wiki. Yeah, you brought it up a couple of weeks ago. I talked to him probably a week ago and asked him about wikifying something.

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