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PortableApps.com Application Template 3.5.2 (with default launcher included)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on November 13, 2016 - 5:37pm

This has been officially released on the Development Page

I'm testing a new style of PortableApps.com Application Template for use with the PortableApps.com Launcher and Installer. The old 2.4 release was just the barebones file structure but includes no example config files. This is of a complete template with config files and a default launcher along with a stub EXE so you can be sure it works by default.

Creating A Portable App: A Guerilla Field Guide

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Submitted by OliverK on July 31, 2008 - 8:42pm

Introduction:Often, somebody will make a post asking for help. I wrote up a guide real quick for this poster, here. After a suggestion by r-andom, I re-posted as a forum topic. If you have a suggestion for the guide, post here. If you need help portablizing, make a new post in the Portable App Development Forum. So, without much more text, I loose the gorilla. . .

Forum Guidelines (Portable App Development)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on March 14, 2006 - 3:25am

The portable app development forum is for all development discussion related to portable apps. Feel free to ask questions on adapting the standard PortableApps NSIS-based launchers used with Portable Firefox, etc with other apps. Or with help working on any portable development project you wish. You'll find more portable apps developers here than anywhere else, so, for most questions, either someone will know outright or at least be able to point you in the right direction.

if one were to hypothetically make Adobe PDF Reader portable on one's own computer

Submitted by thank_you_for_p... on April 28, 2025 - 2:45pm

if one were to hypothetically make Adobe PDF Reader portable on one's own computer (and one shouldn't do it because it would be against their TOS),

what steps would one hypothetically take?

(it's unfortunate how they do stealth updates on their installed app, and periodically change their UI. i'd rather spend my brain using the thing than spend it on keeping track of the UI changes.)

Online Installer

Submitted by xmha97 on March 28, 2025 - 9:59am

Hi, I creating online installer of Obsidian Portable.
The online installer works well but there are two problems:
1. The online installer can't download ARM 64-bit version of Obsidian app.
2. The online installer downloads the official Obsidian installation file multiple times.
Please help me.

You can download and test the my online installer here:
https://github.com/xmha97/PortableApps/releases/tag/obsidian-v1.8.9

Installing Global Assembly Cache

Submitted by Dividend8247 on March 12, 2025 - 3:57pm

Hello guys. I am new to PortableApps, a colleague introduced me.
We are using some Apps for work with this platform and that mentioned colleague started portabilising those apps many years before.
Now I looked a bit further into an App, because I noted that this App wasn't actually portable.
He added an batch script to install some dependencies, but that only works if you delete a text file again. As a looked into those dependencies that come with the App I also noted there were scripts by the developer to install/uninstall those dependencies using "gacutil.exe".

Firefox Portable traces in APPDATA

Submitted by BK1111 on January 31, 2025 - 8:14am

Just trying out Firefox Portable and noticed that two profiles are showing one in
AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
and one in the portable folder

Is any one else expericing a folder in the C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

I do have a local copy installed also.

On latest install portable apps; 134.0.2 (64-bit)

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