Portable App Development

This may be a stupid question, but how can one create a truly self-contained portable executable using ThinApp?

Each time I try to create a ThinApp version of a game (Fallout 1-2, if you must ask), it creates a single .EXE. When you open said EXE it generates a mess of files: Registry.tvr.backup, Registry.rw.tvr.lck, Registry.rw.tvr, and a directory called "%ProgramFilesDir%".

Am I missing something? How do I make a portable version of an app that doesn't need to generate these files outside of itself when opened?

Thanks in advance! Love the site!

As title say, I tried to run it as portable after installation it work but have some problems...
anyone can help?

NSISPortable 2.44
Nsis7z plug-in

Single volumne 7-Zip archive could be extract by this code:
File "ArchiveName.7z"
Nsis7z::ExtractWithDetails "ArchiveName.7z" "Installing package %s..."
Delete "$OUTDIR/ArchiveName.7z"

How do I extract multivolume 7-Zip archive using Nsis7z plug-in in NSIS Installer? File name is file.7z.001, file.7z.002, file.7z.003.

This question is mainly for John.

I was looking at PostBox today, and it looks quite promising, and it's based off of mozilla, which brings me to my questions. I know you work with Mozilla with FF and T-bird, and the licensing is similar.

Here's PostBox's Licensing. Can I make this portable, or do I have to get permission from them first?

Thanks,

-Gizmokid2005

Hi there im new and i just would like to ask if its possible to make customizable categories for the applications

for exable a category Media where u can put all ur players etc...
or graffics for gimp etc
office applications etc...

Ty and keep up the good work

I'm unable to compile the PHP version of Eclipse Portable.

I get this error.

MakeNSIS v2.45 - Copyright 1995-2009 Contributors
See the file COPYING for license details.
Credits can be found in the Users Manual.

Processing config: 
Processing plugin dlls: "C:\Users\Brandon\Desktop\EclipsePortableVersions\Other\PortableApps.comInstaller\App\nsis\Plugins\*.dll"
 - ExecDos::exec
 - ExecDos::isdone
 - ExecDos::wait
 - FindProcDLL::FindProc
 - InstallOptions::dialog
 - InstallOptions::initDialog
 - InstallOptions::show
 - LangDLL::LangDialog
 - MoreInfo::GetComments

I need a clear icon/picture of Eclipse for EclipsePortable.

I extracted an all that was inside the eclipse.exe file was a 48x48 file.

So if somebody could link to a CLEAR 256x256 image of Eclipse's icon that would be super helpful.

Thanks.

Okay so I was thinking of making AIM Lite portable.* I thought of making it for PortableApps because using Package Factory (or something like that) I got the program to run on my U3 Powered flash drive. The program runs perfectly, but the only "problem" I encountered is that if you click "Remember Me" or "Save Password", it will write to the Registry. Besides that, it doesn't use the Registry at all. Anyone know how to get around this** or if I don't need to bother with it at all?

*Yes, I know Pidgen can sign onto AIM.

Hi,

I get this error while I'm trying to create the installer.

Regards: Aron

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