Make a EXE from a batch file

Ok most programs have been made portable, or at least have some work around to make it portable. But here is one way to make most programs portable.

Now I am not going to give you any programs (especially not my copy of WinRar which I will be using as demo for this topic), but I will tell how you can make your own copy of WinRar or any other program portable.

To start, you should install WinRar (or your own program) to a directory in your PortableApps folder (I'll call mine WinRar for this illustration). Installing to this directory should create another folder called WinRar

Navigate to E:\PortableApps\WinRar and make sure that the second WinRar folder is there. Then open up notepad type:
"cd WinRar
rar.exe"

Without the quotes of course, and then save the notepad file to the directory that you navigated to earlier as WinRar.bat making sure that you select all files as the format to save it in.

Then go to http://www.download.com/3000-2069_4-10715331.html to get a free standalone app called batch to exe converter. From here its pretty straight foward to make the batch into an exe that PAM will recognize. In the bat to exe you can select an icon for it.

Note: this will not work for apps that rely on windows services
Note: Your drive letter may be different than the one I used in my example. If you can't figure out how to open up your falsh drive, then you shouldn't be here.

Any questions just email me computerwhizes@gmail.com

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