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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

NSIS 2.44 Windows 7 Patch 1 by PortableApps.com

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Submitted by John T. Haller on April 22, 2009 - 9:28pm

This patch is no longer necessary with NSIS 2.45 and up

I have posted a patch for NSIS which fixes the issue in the upcoming Windows 7 Release Candidate (as well as build 7057 / 7068 / 7077 which were leaked early) where it would trigger a Program Compatibility Assistant warning. Only makensis.exe is altered... just replace it in the NSIS program directory. The updated manifest.cpp is included so you can build it yourself, too.

Portable Operating Systems

Submitted by daniel14linux on April 19, 2009 - 10:06am

I have noticed that the Linux section has displayed 'coming soon' for quite some time.

Some links that should be put there:

http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

There are many more versions of Linux made portable, both native and within Windows, which should be included as links.

Thank you.
daniel14linux

Skype Loader: Simple App To Make Skype Portable (skype.exe NOT included)

Submitted by jarce on April 15, 2009 - 3:47pm

Skype Loader is a very simple application that just runs Skype as a portable app.

This is done by using the official skype.exe switches /removable and /datapath.

You just need to decompress the ZIP folder into whenever you want, and then copy skype.exe from your skype installation folder to the SkyePortable\App folder.

SETUP

0) Download Skype Loader from here http://www.zshare.net/download/58702177b503d9c3/

1) Download Skype from www.skype.com

2) Install Skype to your machine (this is required to get skype.exe application)

The future of Portable Apps Platform My Personal Perspective

Submitted by Hackworth on April 13, 2009 - 2:44am

The future of Portable Apps Platform

To the programming author of this fine application I say what a great venture of possibilities you have enter into, and I would hope you would choose to pursue all facets of making this program a leader of all that shall soon follow, and trust me there are many on there way.

If so you now have the perfect window of opportunity to harness the vast users to a coming new age of software usage with your fine product and ingenuity.

I see a great move forward for this application since the first’s days back in 1999 with VMWare hitting the market.

test > pre-release > limbo

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Submitted by LOGAN-Portable on April 9, 2009 - 8:22pm

Hello,

Almost a year ago I worked with the developer of an open source app to maker it easy to make a portable version. A while later I had the most recent version and finally went from test release to pre-release. The app was added to the "ready for release" page. When months crawled by with every now and then a new installer and launcher script I figured creating a new pre-release just to facilitate the updated installer/launcher scripts was not something I wanted to do, as it did work.

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