Portable App Development

After a clean install today, I found a folder named Mozilla left on %ProgramData% and the portable program didn't clean it. In my opinion, it's not perfect to be a portable app. Please fix it! I can provide more information if needed.

Hello & good day! New fellow developer here with some quick questions

Most of my apps never write to registry and are -in general- contained into a single folder (ApplicationName.exe + a .dll here & there).

As I get it, the gist of publishing around is to make the application work into your installer… correct? i.e. only proper submissions using portableapps.com format.

Hi, after executing ccPortable (v5.83), on a clean 21H1 Win 10 x64 System, I've noticed the following leftovers in registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Piriform\CCleaner

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Piriform\CCleaner

I hope you will solve. Thanks.

Hello all, I am the developer of AuthPass: https://authpass.app/ and recently got a request from a user to make it a portable app. I wonder if you have any suggestions and if it would be possible to publish it in the portableapps directory?

I already created a release which is "portable" - ie. it is a ZIP with will launch without any external dependencies and only write into a Data subdirectory: https://authpass-data.codeux.design/data/artifacts/AuthPass-portable-1.8.2_1731.zip

So it's like:

hey, there please can anyone update links text based browser to the newset version 2.23 ? Thanks alot

Hi, I have written a custom.nsh script that adds symbolic link functionality to PortableApps launchers. You can find it here, functionally replacing the DirectoriesMove function.

It does have some disadvantages (NTFS-only and admin required) but there are use cases like videogames or apps that generate a lot of data where I find it's the optimal solution. Please check it out if you have the time and tell me what you think.

На днях столкнулся с проблемой, Portableapps launcher не переносит папки с русскими наименованиями. Что нужно делать в даной ситуации?

This app has been released: https://portableapps.com/apps/office/dogecoin-portable

Application: Dogecoin
Category: Office - Cryptocurrency
Licensce: Open Source (source code)
Description: Peer-to-Peer digital currency

when the update of platform finish,
the platform restarts
and the apps what I set to start automatically launches although they are already running.

I'd like to make the platform to ignore the start automatically setting after its own update.
If it's that I am missing the corresponding option, please let me know.

thank you and see you

I just started using a PortableApps app in order to improve the page about that option on our FOSS wiki. I hope to add a page about how a portable version (as a complement to a normal install) can expand options.

Download & installation went well, except for a few minor ambiguity hitches regarding what was included in the Portable build.