Portable App Development

I use other programs apart from the ones hosted on this site. Although they are not truly portable, on the whole they seem to run okay when installed onto my USB drive.

I would like to add shortcuts to these programs to the Portable Apps Menu - rather than navigating to the application folder using explorer, and then clicking on the .exe file.

What do you think?

Thanks

James

Much of this is well known, but for people who want to have localized versions of Portable Apps this may come in handy:

Oh, btw, if you want to use another language than English, you should always choose multilingual

7-Zip Portable:
Choose your language in Tools -> Options

AbiWord Portable:
Choose your language in Extra -> Preferences

Audacity Portable:
Choose your language in Edit -> Preferences

ClamWin Portable:
I have no idea. I don't think it's available in other languages than English.

FileZilla Portable:
Choose language in Edit -> Settings -> Interface settings -> Language

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I skimmed the source code of winmerge and found the following entries which rely on the registry. (note that WinMerge, uses a Wrapper, CRegKeyEx at ReyKey.h/cpp)

VssPrompt.cpp: line 97 <-- checks/injects into Visual source safe
SourceControl.cpp: line 123 <-- ditto
PropRegistry.cpp: lines 185 and 146 <-- settings are stored here
Plugins.cpp: line 77 <-- checks for windows scripting host

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