Hey,
I Have Absolutly No Clue On How To Create A Portable Apps And I Really Dont Want To Get Into The Deep Stuff About HOW to create a portable app
is there any program out there that will allow me to select a program and that can turn it into a portable app?
i would also like it if i could add a startup picture like when u start portableapps.com 's apps. ( but thats optional, i dont need that 
)
please help me out here.
tyvm portableapp'ers out there
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ok, now that i got JauntaPE, after selecting the program and selecting the output place, there are a bunch of circles and etc 
( lol ) what circles are the correct one?
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Most applications are not just "Made Portable" in a snap, I know John Haller, the creator of all the Portable versions of the applications currently available from this website spends lots of time planning on what is needed to make the application portable, what features would be appreciated by the public and more. The reason it's not so easy to "Make An Application Portable" is because mainly their settings are normally stored on the Local Computer in areas such as the Registry, and Other various folder on the Computer, like C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USER NAME]\Application Data. Application Data is a hidden folder, if you want, go to there and check out Which of your programs use that folder to store their settings. (Show hidden folder-Open Explorer, go to Tools->Folder Options...->View->"Hidden Files and Folders" o-Show Hidded Files and Folders, then click ok. If you manage to get there, you'll see you probally have a few program storing settings in that folder. That'a the reason all these Portable Applications are written in code, NSIS infact. That's right, I'm getting into the deep stuff. So to cut it short, people have made easier tools to help you make an application portable, I'm sure someone will post a link eventually, but it's still pretty tricky stuff. Some programs and just be installed to your flash drive and they will work portably, but their settings, if they have some, will not be kept. As well, they may require a FrameWork of Runtime Enviroment like .NET, Java, or GTK, these all make an application even harder to make portable.
Sorry for getting so in depth their, but making a portable application is a LOT more work than you would think, so you can try installing to the drive, it's not gonna be truly portable, but it might JustWorkTM if that's what you're looking for.
As for the "Start-Up" picture, that's a splash screen that is added in when the portable version code is written.
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i didnt want to get into deep stuff directions ( i 4got to mention that )
what ur telling me is just fine.
Na na na, come on!
VERY simple to use, but no guarantee it will work 100%.
It seems some apps just can't be portablized in an automated fashion. But I used it for maybe 12 apps with about a 90% success rate. And some of the successes turned out to not be stealthy (which I didn't care about anyway, so that was ok.)
Mostly what JauntPE does is re-direct the Registry entries and some files (you set those up with an INI file) into the app's own folder, instead of letting them be written and then cleaning them out when you exit the program.
Development stopped, but there is still quite a bit of interest, maybe the author will turn it over to others if he doesn't want to work on it any more.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1528
i got the program and it works great so far
but it shows it on toolbar and then it doesnt show on the desktop (just the toolbar)....
it has to be the app (the one im making portable) cause it happened b4 on me. you were a great help and im hoping that this works on this other app im going to try out.
ill keep you all posted
Na na na, come on!
http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=10
Most of my problems have been setting up the INI file to add correct "file exclusions".
For example with PDFxc viewer, I had to add an exclusion for the My Documents folder, otherwise pdf files I saved to My Documents were sent to the "re-directed" folder inside the PDFxc app folder, and then when I tried to open other documents from the "real" folder, PDFxc would only access the redirected folder.
Folks on that forum helped me fix that, and now it works like a champ.
If You have a specific Program that You'd like to be made portable, and You don't want to get into the deep Stuff, You can post it in the Request Apps Forum and wait for Someone to help You out... but unless It is free and Open Source, You are unlikely to get many takers.
If You just have specific Tasks You want to do, and You don't care what the Program is as long as it works well, then You would be better off looking for Apps that have already been made portable.
Check http://www.portablefreeware.com.
These don't always qualify as "Portable" according to THIS Website, since many are not Open Source, but the Moderator makes every Effort to disclose all the Shortcomings of each particular App.
You will notice on http://www.portablefreeware.com that a fair Number of the Apps are not originally intended to be portable, but the installation Instructions tell You to extract the contents of the Setup file with an Program called "Universal Extractor". These Apps have been examined and tested by the Submitters and the Moderator, so that They know this Approach works.
This has expanded the number of Apps on that Site to about 1100.
If You can't find an App there or here to do what You need, I'd be quite surprised.
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jauntePE takes to long to load an app
any other apps?
Na na na, come on!