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RunAsAdmin - elevated rights

Submitted by englishman on May 16, 2011 - 10:25am

Does anyone know, if you are logged in with a limited account, and then run a PortableApp with elevated rights....

1. Will the HKCU RegistryKeys entries in the launcher.ini file refer to those for the Admin user or the limited account? If they refer to the Admin user, is there a way of coding for the limited users HKCU entries under elevated rights? I need to store some current desktop settings for the current user whilst the portableapp is running and revert them when the program exists. But I also need to capture some HKLM entries too.

making portable

Submitted by jimmy1234 on May 15, 2011 - 9:11am

hey there!
just visited and browsed portableapps and the forum a few hours, and I'm totally confused...
and i have to ask same old question again... Smile :
"how do i make standalone software portable?!"

I'm totally confused, because most of the threats are 2 or more! years old. And none of the ways are easy to use or at least easy to understand.

Pal beta warning message..

Submitted by Devildevilscle on May 11, 2011 - 8:41am

A part of a test im conducting after making an app portable via PAL Beta is moving the whole package/folder thru different locations. Things went fine except for that warning message stating something like "the whole package was moved at a new location & it should be discouraged"
Is there a way to stop that warning message from appearing?

a.exe: Replace [Win] keys with Portable versions and get accent shortcuts

Submitted by dexterlemmer on May 6, 2011 - 10:20pm

a.exe (which I've now renamed to AMAA for AutoMenuAutoAccent) is a AutoHotkey_L script written by me. AMAA does the following:

  1. Gives shortcuts for placing accents on letters similar to MS Word (with some added functionality aimed at developers).
  2. Overrides the Windows key to open the PortableAppsMenu rather than the Windows start menu.
  3. Overrides [Win + E] to open a user-specified file browser.

Skype Portable 5.3.0.111 Install Issues

Submitted by x10guy on May 5, 2011 - 8:26am

I have tried to install this verson of skype (Skype Portable 5.3.0.111) on my flash drive (Kingston 8GB) and it was telling me that there was a problem with the program itself as in the install package itself was corrupted. I tried again and the same thing. Then i completely uninstalled the app and tried to reinstall it....still the same problem. Somebody please help me (or if there is more) us.

Planner 14.4 (update)

Submitted by Ravensun on May 4, 2011 - 7:19am

Hi all,

I would like to see update of Planner 14.2 to Planner 14.4. I found this page https://portableapps.com/node/5160 , where was planner 14.2, but 14.4 is better. Much bugs are fixed and I will be very happy if anybody could to do update of it.

Homepage of planner : http://live.gnome.org/Planner
Planner for windows : http://winplanner.sourceforge.net/

Thank you.

How do I exclude base application files from the installler?

Submitted by englishman on May 2, 2011 - 11:56am

I am building a launcher that should download and extract the necessary files and not include any base application files itself in the installer. I have this in the installer.ini file

[CopyLocalFiles]
CopyLocalFiles=false

[DownloadFiles]
DownloadURL=http://example.com/Setup.exe
... etc

When I look inside the paf.exe file created by the installer, the base application files are still being included. (i.e those inside the X:\PortableApps\AppNamePortable\App\AppName folder).

What am I doing wrong? How can I exclude these files from the installer?

Thanks

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