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Launcher's odd behavior w/ Registry

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Submitted by AntiVirGear on November 1, 2020 - 10:43am

Hey there Smile

so I'm finally trying to "convert" some games into a portable app, at least creating an environment so people may just copy the game files over, adjust the registry and here we go.

I paste my .INI files below here, there is only ONE .REG file available and it (unfortunately) writes to HKLM only but also somewhere which is mandatory for this specific game... (and some else maybe)

The issue of closing the process before the end of the app

Submitted by paul_guo on October 24, 2020 - 12:22am

I wanted to make a portable app for huya streaming and found that his main process huya.exe still has a huyaservice.exe process running after closing, causing backup of appdata content to fail.I learned that you can use the .nsh file to call killproc to solve the problem, so I put a custom.nsh in the launcher folder of paf.
${SegmentFile}
${SegmentPrePrimary}
KillProcDLL::KillProc “HuyaService.exe”
!macroend
${SegmentPostPrimary}
KillProcDLL::KillProc “HuyaService.exe”
!macroend
But it doesn't seem to be working, so what can I do about it?

Can you help me find the problem? appinfo.ini

Submitted by Zpsybox on October 7, 2020 - 2:08pm

Hello, I'm trying to make a portable CDisplayEx app. And unfortunately i can't. The program is very simple, and i used total uninstall to track all the files that program creates during installation. But at the end, when I try to run portableapps launcher I'll have this error:
" ERROR: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Project\App\AppInfo\appinfo.ini doesn't exist! "
The thing is - I have appinfo.ini in that folder.
What the magic here? Can anybody help?

Installer: No appinfo_16.png or 32.png??

Submitted by JOnF on October 5, 2020 - 8:13pm

I'm using the Application Template 3.5.2. I used the launchergenerator to create a working .exe file. Next I run the installer to create a .paf. Which fails. The log says:


ERROR: No appicon_16.png in PortableApps.com_Application_Template_3.5.2\AdvancedRenamerPortable\App\AppInfo.
ERROR: No appicon_32.png in PortableApps.com_Application_Template_3.5.2\AdvancedRenamerPortable\App\AppInfo.
ERROR: AppInfo.ini - Control - Start=AdvancedRenamer.exe, file is missing.

But...

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Submitted by notport on September 23, 2020 - 8:46am

It would be a great feature if the platform would indicate exactly how many apps are installed.

Make an already portable app available in the PA launcher

Submitted by carmoulux on August 14, 2020 - 2:37pm

Hello!

I have in my memory stick, along with the Portables Apps Launcher, a couple of other portable software I downloaded from their developer's websites already that way.

Since I don't have to make them portable first, how should I proceed to make them available/install in the Portable Apps menu?
It would be nice to have them there because I wouldn't need to go to different folders every time. Thanks!

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