I am wondering what modifications are made to applications in order to make them portable. I know that for a lot of apps all that is required is to just copy their program files over to a flash drive and they'll run as long as they don't rely too much on the registry. I am just curious how apps on PortableApps.com are modified to make them portable. What changes are made to the programming code, etc?
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There is no modification at all just move the apps like this
-portable app name
->App (put your app folder here)
->Data or settings
and next you need a good basic knowledge of nsis to make the exe. the launcher is just a redirect of the apps own exe but modified to also make sure the registry is used little as possible and if it is then it erases from the registry. if this does not help then maybe john would be better to ask
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