How do you make applications portable I wan't to make applications I made portable
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Creating A Portable App: A Guerilla Field Guide.
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how do you edit registry and where it puts it to an ini file?
Could you clarify that?
If you want to edit the registry, you press Win+R and type in regedit and click Okay.
Not sure about the INI file though.
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when the program writes to regisitry instead of going to regisitry it goes to an ini file where all the data is kept
Only some programs do that, and when it does, it varies where the file is located.
For example, AkelPad has two modes, registry and ini, when it's set to registry, it obviously sets it to write settings in the registry, when it's set to ini, it writes an ini called AkelPad.ini in it's own folder.
That's what you mean, right? In that case, you have to do some thorough investigating, it's usually in the somewhere in the User Profile or the AppData folders, and in other cases it's in its own folder.
You'll need to backup the program's Registry keys to an INI file, then remove the keys from the Registry.
You can look at most of the launchers on here (some apps don't write to the Registry, so some of the launchers don't need to worry about that) to see examples of that in action.
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you'll do the registry by uing the backup\install\save\delete\restore process. Check out 7-Zip for that.
As to the ini, it depends if the program supports it. PNotes, Geany, FileZilla all have methods.
Other programs require you to move it at startup and move it again at shutdown.
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thank you all for helping.
I will release it soon.
The one I am going to release never wrote to registry.