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LibreOffice Portable 7.3.2 not starting on Windows 11

Submitted by Strange Problem... on June 11, 2022 - 8:17pm

I downloaded LibreOfficePortable_7.3.2_MultilingualAll.paf.exe and installed it to a folder AppsPortable\LibreOffice
The installation was successful, but after that none of the applications can execute - all of them start and terminate immediately. I didn't expect such a strange problem. I didn't have that problem with LibreOfficePortable_7.3.1_MultilingualAll.paf.exe

Using DoubleExtractFilename

Submitted by Drazick on May 14, 2022 - 3:04am

I am trying to build a PortableApp.
The installer is an online installer.

The download file is an EXE file which has a folder within named $PLUGINSDIR which has a file named app-64.7z inside it.
What I want is to be able to extract the contents of app-64.7z into App\AppName folder.

Hence I created installer.ini as following:

appinfo.ini start field ... how to create the .exe

Submitted by new2AllThis on April 13, 2022 - 4:42pm

Hi all,
Creating my first portable app .. im stuck on the bit in the app documentation that says ...

"Start is the command line to execute to start the app relative to the AppNamePortable directory. This will typically be AppNamePortable.exe."

How do I make the .exe file?? and how does it point to the actual executable in the App\Appname\ directory?
I have a .bat file that works perfectly, I just cant figure out how to create the .exe file ...

Thanks

Problem with HKLM & Wow6432Node

Submitted by Daniel0312 on March 2, 2022 - 5:30am

Hi,
I have a small utility I want to make portable.
It's pretty straightforward and I had the launcher working in no time.
Well.. except it doesn't work !
The reason I finaly found for it is that PAL writes the key to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\App when the registry key I want to write should go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\App ! The App reads HKLM\SOFTWARE\App that doesn't exist.
I've seen some posts about this issue but all of them very old.
Is there a workaround or am I out of luck ?

Registering DLL In Registry Question

Submitted by vrjunkie on March 1, 2022 - 4:49pm

Hi,

I have a question. I have a program I have made portable. It requires registering a .dll that in turn requires admin rights. I have used a custom.nsh file to register and unregister the .dll. IOW I don't need help with that - it's working....

My question is, I don't understand how PortableApps uses it's own registery files without writing to the host pc's registry at all.

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