AquaSnap complains at every login after PC reboot/shutdown to be not closed correctly

The PortableApps.com Platform will automatically shut down all your running portable apps. It will then warn you of any that can't be automatically closed so you can close them manually. This is why you should always use the platforms close feature in conjunction with your portable apps to ensure they are closed safely.

If you "minimize" an app to the system tray, it's not actually minimized and no longer has an available window. As such, Windows can't send it a WM_CLOSE message and it can't be automatically closed by the PortableApps.com Platform or by anything else.

If you shut down Windows with a portable app running, Windows will unceremoniously kill off the portable launcher without letting it clean up after the app. This could be as serious as leaving data behind locally or as innocuous as leaving the settings files for an app within the App directory as is the case with AquaSnap. The issue with the latter is that the files won't get backed up when you do an app data backup via the platform. And there is a chance for data loss if you upgrade after crashing the app if the app doesn't have a custom installer.ini to allow for preserving the errant data files in the App directory. This is why you're losing your license file and preferences on each upgrade, because the files are still in the App directory. This danger is why the app is warning you every time you inadvertently prevent it from properly closing.

We may provide an "advanced" close option that will kill the app process allowing the portable launcher to then properly clean up. This will have a note about possible data loss as anything left unsaved by the app will be lost when its process is killed.