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Force portable apps to use VPN

Submitted by karavanm on August 17, 2025 - 5:30am

Hi everyone,
I want to be able to force portable apps to go through VPN.

I am using PIA which allows split tunneling (i.e. force only some some apps to use VPN) and it generally works fine except for the case of portable apps. For example, I am setting "FirefoxPortable.exe" to go through PIA, but it does not work, it uses my actual IP.

Any ideas what I should do are welcome.

Thanks in advance

Idle CPU Usage of PortableAppsPlatform.exe

Submitted by Unknown123 on July 16, 2025 - 11:47am

Screenshot of System Informer:

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The OS is Windows 11 24H2.

I'm just curious.

With no portable apps running. there is still cpu usage when it is in idle.
It seems to be polling for something.

What's the .exe is doing? What causes it?
Is it by design? Why?

Is there any way to reduce it to none?

Donation impossible

Submitted by Proletarian on July 15, 2025 - 5:55pm

Platform updated today, and I got the prompt to donate. Tried to, using Paypal, but was redirected on a Paypal page

Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country
Return to Rare Ideas, LLC

I am in New Zealand.

I have been trying to donate many times over the years, but always had the same prompt.

Please assist.

using PortableAppsPlatform to update Portable Apps not installed with the Platform

Submitted by thank_you_for_p... on June 19, 2025 - 4:16pm

I don't remember why, but when I started using Portable Apps, I used to download zips individually, and unzip the zip files in a folder/directory structure/hierarchy I created. That is, I used them without using the PortableAppsPlatform.

Nowadays I quite like this folder/directory structure/hierarchy.

But it's a headache updating these apps. Gotta download the zip, then aim the unzip correctly etc.

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