Portable App Development

I know we already have Portable Firefox, so my idea may seem stupid, but hear me out. One of the features I saw requested for PFF was native support for multiple profiles. So, I'm thinking of answering that request by writing a brand-new launcher that allows the user to select a profile on startup. As many profiles as necessarily can be created, and they'd be stored as subdirectories of the PFF profiles directory (or whatever my equivalent was).

I'll probably make this one way or the other, but I'd like to know if anyone would be interested in it. It would be completely open-source, just like John's launcher.

I created a PuTTY plugin for one of my BartPE CDs and just tested it to work as a great portable app as well. PuTTY is the best SSH shell for Windows and my scripts basically let you load your personalized settings into the registry, run your session, save any setting changes you made and then delete all PuTTY settings from the host computer when you close PuTTY. It also lets you login with a predefined private-key file so you're not transmitting your password in clear-text either.

It can work from a read-only disk as well as a USB key. Its most secure on a ramdisk-based OS environment (BartPE CD) because none of your session will ever even touch magnetic platter. But it does delete all trace of its use on any Windows system.

I´m testing Portable Sandboxie. My idea is use this soft to safely use USB on any computer without making modification to host computer.
www.sandboxie.com and download the file.
My Batch files wich run browser in sandboxed
The idea is starting PSTart so any app runned by this menu, is sandboxed.
Is a very primitive idea of implementing...but it works.
Try and tell me opinions

start.cmd
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regedit /s Sanboxie+.reg
copy Sandboxie.ini %SystemRoot%\
sandboxieinstall.exe /install /S /D=C:\temp
sc.exe create Sandbox binpath= C:\temp\Sandbox.sys type= kernel start= auto error= normal DisplayName= Sandbox

Hi Folks

We have just released a new, free, open-source XP app that's designed for USB/Flash disks but also works on any Windows folder. It's called Yadadisk, and consists of only one file, with no install required - truly portable. You just drop it where you want to encrypt content and run the exe. At only 60k it's pretty tiny, too, but still offers secure AES128 encryption.

Its just what you need to keep your Portableapps safe in transit or on your hard drive.

After two attempts to contact the people at Portableapp.com with no reply we have put it on our own site, if anyone knows a good way to contact the people who run this please met me know

Here is a copy of what I am using with SyncBack. It backs up the existing settings runs syncback and then restores the previous settings. If there are no existing settings it still works fine but gives some error messages. Let me know any suggestions as this is my first batch file and I am still learning. I tried registry rapper first but it didn't backup the existing registry settings so if I use it somewhere where it is already installed they will loose all the profiles.

@ECHO OFF
REM **********************************************
REM SyncBack Startup
REM **********************************************

I've just completed making photoshop 7 (the best tradeoff between speed and features imo) portable, using a loader with NSIS in a similar fashion to most of the apps on this site. I know it's not open source or freeware, but it is simple enough to UPX-pack the main files and drop them into the directory, and you can delete a LOT of the unneeded plugins and resources (textures and so on) and it squeezes down into around 25-30mb, maybe less if you are hardcore about it.

I was just wondering if there was interest for this kind of thing, and whether it violates portableapps ethics somehow to post the loader here, since the app it targets is not open source... I wouldn't post copywrited files or anything, just the loader.

Sorry I have posted the information in Other App support as well not knowing where would be the best place for it.

When I change
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\USBStart\DefaultIcon]
@="H:\\pstart.exe,1"
to
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\USBStart\DefaultIcon]
@="%HD%\\pstart.exe,1"
and
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\USBStart\shell\open\command]
@="H:\\pstart.exe"
to
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\USBStart\shell\open\command]
@="%HD%\\pstart.exe"

it gives me an error H:\ Access is Denied. Is there a way to fix this?

source: https://portableapps.com/node/429

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\EventHandlers\MixedContentOnArrival]

Is it possible to sync a palm with the mobile version of thunderbird and sunbird? It looks like mozilla offers this option but only in the suite.

Hi guys. I just love the portable application concept. I would like insights on how to start making applications portable.
Any help would be welcome.

Hi All,

A few years back I was working as a contractor and one of the tasks I was working on required that my application be packed as a single executable file. I used a solution by a company called "Bit-Arts" that I don't believe is around anymore. They had a product called "Fusion" that would take a Visual Basic project file and compile the whole application, including dependent libraries/controls into a single compressed executable. They claimed that they translated everything into assembly language and thats how they were able to create the single executable, in place, file.

Does anyone know of a similar solution today? Like I mentioned the company, Bit-Arts, is not around today and I have yet to discover a similar solution. It would be great for use on our USB drives.