For some time I've been using Portable Gaim on my External HD as well as locally on my permanent desktop. I've never had any problems with it.
Today I downloaded the newest version, Portable Gaim 1.5 Beta 2. I tried both using WinRar to "Extract Here" as well as opening the zipped package in Winzip and copy-pasting as suggested on the support page (https://portableapps.com/support/portable_gaim#installing) to 'install' Portable Gaim to my local computer. I also tried copying it onto my External Hard Drive. I tried all these steps without having first copied my old profile in so that the above steps were more of a clean install (of course, the same problem also occurs if I do copy them).
Regardless of the method, I continually get the following message:
Title: "gaim.exe - Unable To Locate Component"
Body: "This application has failed to start because intl.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
Immediately following I get another box,
Title: "Error"
Body: "Error loading gaim.dll. Error: 126"
I would guess that Portable Gaim is looking for a local file installed on my computer that is almost universally found on machines running Windows XP, or perhaps those that have previously had the installation-only version of Gaim installed.
Any suggestions how to get Portable Gaim Beta 2 to run on any computer? Perhaps a .dll to download and just drop somewhere in the folder?