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portable vb express 2008

Submitted by milleja46 on September 8, 2009 - 3:04pm

i have created a install of vb express 2008 so it will be portable. It works except for the fact that it tells me that custstat.dll is missing. But that is in one of the folders that it contains please tell me how to fix it thx. Oh and please tell me how to put it on this site through this post. so you can see for your self. thx.

can some experts help a noob like me with 2 things please?

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Submitted by kadardalton on September 5, 2009 - 6:14pm

okay i have made a few launchers for some games and im having a issue with the splash screen not showing up can someone take a look at them for me?

Heres the forum post for one of them: https://portableapps.com/node/20578

also can someone tell me how i can turn my launchers into paf live launchers so the files get downloaded automatically for people?

you can check the OpenSonicPortable.nsi file in the opensonic launcher and stuff if you need to look at the coding of the .nsi file

Encrypted backup

Submitted by Bayel on August 24, 2009 - 11:11am

Hello. I use the portable apps at work, so the documents i have into the drive are confidential.

I have seen that the backup aplication uses 7zip to compress the backup folder. 7zip has an option to encrypt the compressed file by a password. The bakcup application could be inproved by giving the option to encrypt the backup file.

Running a batch script when portable apps is started

Submitted by matthewfl on August 17, 2009 - 8:10pm

I am looking to run a batch script when portable apps is started to set some environment variable to add some of my command line programs to the path. What is the best way to do this, I was thinking of making the script start PA after it has set the path is this ok? or is there something else?

Help with PA.com installer compilation

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Submitted by radarman36 on August 15, 2009 - 5:23pm

Hi everybody,

I've created a portable version of Yahoo! Widget engine, and I want to upload it as an installer and share the Launcher with the community.

But, I've a problem with NSIS during compilation.

The Portableapps.com Installer gives me the following error

 Function: "PreWelcome"
StrCmp "$AUTOMATEDINSTALL" "true" equal=, nonequal=PreWelcomeEnd
StrCmp expects 3-4 parameters, got 5.
Usage: StrCmp str1 str2 label_to_goto_if_equal [label_to_goto_if_not]

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